Kuala Lumpur, 12th August 2021 - Doctors, nurses, first responders, policemen, ambulance and hearse drivers, gravediggers - these are among the frontline workers in the battle against COVID-19. There are others, too, like the food delivery drivers and riders, pharmacists, grocery store employers and their staff - they give us some semblance of normalcy in our lives, keep our community safe and the world running.
There are hundreds of thousands of frontliners globally, who are out there every day putting their lives on the line for us; imagine a day without their services, where would we be? In March, Amnesty International said at least 17,000 health and frontline workers had died from COVID-19 in the past year based on an analysis compiled by Amnesty, Public Services International and UNI Global Union.
Malaysia has some 500,000 frontliners, 245,995 of whom are health frontliners. Health director-general ,Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah says, the health frontliners have been fully vaccinated. Figures are not yet forthcoming of the frontliners who've tragically died due to the coronavirus.
It was reported recently that since January, hundreds of doctors and nurses have resigned, or requested time off due to fatigue. This is bad news and an added burden on other frontliners. We need more Good Samaritans to help us get thorough these dark days.
Let's salute our frontliners and offer a daily prayer for them. They need our moral support and encouragement now, more than ever, to sustain their focus on the job at hand.
Read further on The New Straits Times’ article attached.
HELP BREAK THE COVID-19 CHAIN
