THE Health Ministry is looking at ways to improve the working conditions of frontline Covid-19 personnel and to rotate them, director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.

This was because many of them are experiencing burnout after being at the forefront of the Covid-19 battle for almost a year.

“This is the challenge. We have no choice but to fight the war. We will have to rotate the personnel on the frontlines,” he said at the ministry’s weekly press conference today.

He said that psychosocial support has also been put in place since January last year to help personnel in need.

Swamped with patients, frontliners have expressed that they are burning out as resources have reached a breaking point and hospitals have run out of beds.

Leaves have also been frozen.

Some doctors also claimed that they were subjected to 14-hour shifts and their welfare was being neglected. – January 21, 2021.