COVID-19 & HBB

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, HBB has impacted the others by contributing to the efforts of the work against the pandemic COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting and reshaping life for everyone around the globe, forcing society to embrace the new norm. COVID-19 has quickly sparked one of the largest behavioural change campaigns in history.

To understand which COVID-19 massage are resonating with communities around the world, HBB doesn’t get to meet each other to have a meeting, we did a virtual online meeting to update with each other’s and all the discussion and important work were done remotely while each one of us is staying at home.

A Zoom meeting of HBB members during the MCO

HBB members (who are medical practitioners) with other doctors involved as a frontliners continued to serve the nation during the government’s Movement Control Order (MCO) period. After a month of the MCO which was introduced on March 18, the government’s efforts to break the chain of COVID-19 infections is showing positive results. Some updates from the battlefield (health care facilities):

Dr. Wan Hannan — Dr Wan Abdul Hannan on the mass screening and sampling at the latest enhanced movement control order (EMCO) in Kuala Lumpur. It is estimated to have 14 000 people to be sampled for COVID-19.

Dr. Izza Arsyika while on duty in one of the government health facilities. Despite the MCO, Dr Izza and her respected colleagues in the Cardiology Department has been providing service as usual amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

Other than that, the non-medical HBB members voluntarily involved in helping HBB NGO friend (Halaman Nurani Sdn Bhd Volunteers) to prepare food for the frontliners ie: for the health worker in Hospital Sungai Buloh, and the frontliners like the army and police.

Halaman Nurani Sdn Bhd Volunteers prepared food for frontliners.

Due to the limitation of movement MCO, HBB does not intend to risk our volunteers by having mass volunteering activities instead we created awareness by HBB encouraged all Malaysian to stays at home, stay safe, wash hands regularly and practice social distancing to fight the COVID-19 through HBB social media ie: Instagram and Facebook.

Malaysia on its way winning the war against COVID 19 as the government’s actions are providing effective in curbing the spread and intensity of the pandemic. Thus, we continue to give impact to the community by working along with other NGOs like Medtweet. My and HNSB volunteer to fight the pandemic COVID-19 in Malaysia.

In addition, HBB is having a community clinic in Cambodia that continues to serving and taking care of the community in Phnom Penh. All of the volunteer doctors in Phnom Penh has been involved in the additional training course preparing them for the future mission due to the fight against COVID-19.

Dr Roly and team have been dedicatedly fighting COVID-19 in Phnom Penh.

Coming soon, HBB will be launching a COVID-19 Webinar to educate the general public on how does Malaysia and other countries tackle the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic. The team behind this webinar are medical students from various universities within Malaysia and overseas. This webinar was envisioned to be sharing the reflections and lessons learned from the path to recovering from COVID-19, with an intent to not only benefit Malaysians but also other countries involved in this webinar.

Together, we can change our world.