Following the March 22 announcement of the death of six doctors, the Indonesian Medical Association’s executive board (BP IDI) began posting on its social media pages obituaries for doctors who succumbed to the Covid-19, complete with a black and white portrait of the deceased doctors next to their names and academic titles.
Daeng Mohammad Faqih, Chairman, Indonesian Medical Association./TEMPO/Hilman Fathurrahman W. tempo : 167527495164
PB IDI’s posts amid the rising death toll drew public attention. They seem to jolt the public into reality that medical personnel, particularly doctors, who are fighting at the frontline of the battle against the corona pandemic are falling one by one. “It’s only fitting for us to honor our members who died in the fight,” said the PB IDI Chairman Daeng Mohammad Faqih during a special interview with Tempo last Friday, April
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