24/07/2020
করোনাক্রান্ত অভিবাসীর ডায়েরী-১ (কোভিড১৯ নিয়ন্ত্রণে)
সিঙ্গাপুর সরকারের মানবিকতা ও আন্তরিকতায় উদ্বেলিত হবে সকল প্রবাসীর হৃদয়
CoronaKaal-Migrants Narrative
by Asit Kumar Baroi Bangali
The circuit breaker has been underway since April6. When i came to the dormitory in the evening after work on Monday the 6th, the management and security came and said that he would not be able to go out of the dormitory from the next day. In the same way, all the rules and regulations issued by the Singapore government and dormitories due to the COVID-19 or Coronavirus - such as maintaining social distance from each other, people in one room cannot go to another room, even in the bathroom and toilet.
Officials from the Singapore Ministry of Health will come and speak to all workers. It is worth mentioning here that I live in room number 6 on the third floor of the Senoko Lop 21B dormitory. There was a total of 23 Bangladeshis in the room then. This is our company KT & T's own dormitory. The canteen / or dining hall on the ground floor of the 6-story building has 600 to 700 people on the second floor, and the company's head office from the third floor to the sixth floor, most of whom are dormitory managers along with working expatriates.
We all lined up, took our ID cards, and called one by one to measure our temperature and register our names as well as those whose temperature was 36 degrees. More than five of us told them to stay there separately and the rest of the necessary documents and one thermometer to go to the room. The first time my temperature was 36 degrees, the second time I measured it again 36degresSo he told me to go to the hospital with a few others.
Since I had a fever I immediately agreed. A total of 13 people, including two workers from our room, me and colleague Mohiuddin Bhai, from our 3x9 feet room, including workers and supervisors, were told to go to the hospital, and it was almost evening. An ambulance was called. At around 7.30 am, ambulances started arriving one by one and in each ambulance, started couple of personnel took them to different pre-arranged hospitals.
At 8:22 pm, an ambulance rushed to Tan Tok Seng Hospital. I reached the hospital at 8:40 am. After finishing the admission process at 6:53, I waited in the designated chair for the X-ray and COVID-19 examination. A nurse came and said that it would take 8 to 12 hours to get the report. So, stay here tonight. And he took me to a good bed on the 6th floor.
I wanted to know if there was dinner. Not to mention that he said there are usually breakfast at 8am, lunch at 12pm and dinner between 6pm and 7pm. So there will be no more dinner today. I can have tea and coffee biscuits if I want. Then I asked him to give it. He showed me everything in the room and thanked me with a smile. He left twenty minutes later. Another nurse brought me coffee-biscuits and measured my fever and said good night.
I ate fresh biscuits, drank coffee, and probably fell asleep on either side of the net. I woke up at 6:30 in the morning to the sound of the room phone ringing. As soon as I picked up the receiver, I heard ancultured female voice from the side.
“So You Need Some Day Treatment Here No Tension No Or Now You Finish The Morning Work And Breakfast OK? Letter I Coming,,,,,,”
In fact, I was not ready for such news. And I didn't see any symptoms in my body except for a little fever, so I did not lose my morale and made myself firmly convinced to overcome this difficult time with patience.
At half-past eleven, Dr. Aslan took the inquiry. After a while the nurse came and went with lunch and told me to change the room in the afternoon. At three o'clock he was taken to a room on the 9th floor where there were already two beds at a certain distance. Going there, I got to know that he is also a Bangladeshi man. His hometown is Comilla, and his name was Kader. We are both about the same age.
At half-past eleven, Dr. Aslan took the inquiry. After a while, the nurse came and went with lunch and told me to change the room in the afternoon. At three o'clock he was taken to a room on the 9th floor where there were already two beds at a certain distance. Going there, I got to know that he is also a Bangladeshi man. His hometown is Comilla, and his name was Kader. We are both about the same age.
He had come here two days ago. Already a call came from Bangladesh and I talked to my three-and-a-half-year-old son and his mother via the internet. I did not receive the first video call. When the call was over, I gave an audio call. When they wanted to know the reason for not receiving it, I lied to them that the old mobile was not receiving the video call, and the reason for saying this was that the motherboard was at fault. Hence there will be problems.
Abrito Baroi, my son will stop eating and start crying/worrying. Meanwhile, since my wife is a nurse, she can understand by speaking patterns in a hospital setting and I can't explain anything to them about the current situation around the world, so I didn't want to tell any of them then. And so, in the absence of my wife, I talked to my parents in a video call on my cousin’s Facebook Messenger for about a day or two. Anyway, at half-past three or four, the nurse came again and asked me if I wanted coffee or tea.
Honestly, it is the cordial sincerity and good nature of nurses and doctors that serve the patients here. Although there is no separate vaccine or medicine for the coronavirus, they continue treatment with fever and colds depending on their physical condition. Since I came to the hospital in the early stages, my condition has never been worse, I have never felt sick, and every morning the nurse comes in with a new dress and measures the fever four times in twenty-four hours. And there is regular food, fruit, coffee biscuits.
Quader was in the next bed was referred to the Expo Government-appointed Isolation Center on Wednesday afternoon. And I was told to go to the Expo Isolation Center on Friday the 24th. The nurse came and put everything in his bed in the dustbin, sprayed it, and arranged it anew.
In the evening another person came to that bed. A Bangladeshi man from Khulna tested positive without any symptoms! Anyway, on Friday morning, the nurse came and explained the paper containing the 36-day medical leave with the medicine and told me to get ready to travel to the Expo Isolation Center.
He told us to get ready to come to the Expo Isolation Center and at ten o'clock in the morning, we left the Expo in the authorized transport of the hospital. I arrived there and went to the room through the guidance the nurses or volunteers provided via the instructions of the doctor laying down the rules of the center.
I came to observe that 460 rooms have been constructed in each hall room with two people in each room with a certain distance. There is a bedsheet/cover on each bed, two pillow covers, one pillow, two small towels, one water pot, one toothbrush, two kinds of toothpaste, body wash
Shampoo, detergent powder, mask, a pair of slippers/sandals, and even toilet tissue are provided. And for every four or six rooms, there is a blood pressure monitor and, the computer is kept there so that our key health indicators are mapped every four hours.
Now millions of expatriates like us, are receiving free medical care in quarantine, under the supervision of the government. The hearts of all expatriates will be overwhelmed by the humanity and sincerity of the Singapore government. We wish to convey our heartfelt gratitude to the Prime Minister of Singapore and the leadership team for taking care of us!
Writer: Migrant Poet & writer & the President of Banglar Kantha Literary Council, Working in Singapore
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