Many face stress as isolation, job prospects and family woes worsen in pandemic, say experts.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
For the past three months, the 55-year-old housewife has barely stepped out of her home.
In the aftermath of the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak 17 years ago, Tan Tock Seng Hospital turned informal peer support given to staff on the front line into a formal Staff Support Staff programme.During the 15 days she spent in a ward for Sars patients at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in 2003, Ms Pauline Chong thought often of her mother.As a consultant emergency physician at National University Hospital, Dr Ong Pei Yuin has had to tend to potential Covid-19 patients.
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