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For many nurses, the past seven months have been the most challenging they have experienced, as they battled on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic. This Nurses’ Day, Shabana Begum speaks to some of them about their experiences.
Treated patients as brothers
National University Hospital Assistant director of Nursing and Advanced Practice Nurse Katherine Leong. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
The migrant workers who streamed out of the buses and stood in front of the community care facility (CCF) in Tuas South looked dazed and nervous.
But they seemed more at ease when they saw the group of healthcare workers, clad in thick personal protective equipment (PPE), waving to and welcoming them.
Ms Katherine Leong, 49, who led the nursing team at the Tuas South CCF, knows a smattering of Bengali and Tamil from meeting patients and families as an advanced practice nurse with the Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children’s Medical Institute at the National University Hospital (NUH).
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