CORONAVIRUS | Being exposed online and stigmatised for contracting virus has caused patients to suffer mental abuse.
| Each time Ching comes across a Covid-19 positive patient whose identity has been exposed on social media, his heart goes out to the unfortunate person.
The next day on Feb 7 he was informed that he had been tested positive and that an ambulance would pick him up to take him to Hospital Sungai Buloh. He unwittingly found himself at the receiving end of netizens’ wrath, all because he had returned from overseas and was Covid-19 positive. Upon his return from Hong Kong, Ching stayed with his parents in Selangor and after he was diagnosed, his parents underwent self-quarantine and tested negative.
“It was fortunate that while I was hospitalised, the medical staff who attended to me gave me a lot of encouragement and urged me to be strong enough to face the challenge,” he said.Commenting on the stigma attached to Covid-19, psychologist Dr Wong Kok Fye said when patients are discriminated against and subject to abuse in cyberspace, they would not only have to deal with the disease but also mental and emotional stress.
“The stigma of the disease will make the situation worse. Worse still, when people show symptoms of the disease, they may not want to go for screening for fear of being ostracised by the public.
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