So...who is panicking over Sars now?
Since the admission of the third probable severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) patient last week at the Penang general hospital, its medical workers have been told that their leave would be 'frozen' for an indefinite period of time .
Doctors and nurses are lamenting the fact that they are required to report for duty despite feeling 'under the weather', in case they are needed to deal with victims of the deadly virus which has claimed the lives of at least 165 people and infected more that 3,000 people globally.
The designated health workers are also being placed on standby duty despite having MCs or being certified to be 'medically unfit to work'.
"And the authorities tell us not to panic over the virus, but what they are doing to us speak volumes of their own state of panic" said a doctor, obviously upset with the abrupt administrative and physical changes in the government hospital since the first Sars victim made headlines in the country.
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