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THE DUTY-BOUND NURSE

shahidah suhaimy, 30
Staff nurse at Tan Tock Seng Hospital
“I wanted to come back and help.”

Shahidah was in the Galapagos Islands on a diving-related work trip in January when news about the Covid-19 spread broke. The nurse-turned-diving instructor kept an eye on the situation, and when the number of cases kept rising, she knew what she had to do.

She packed her bags and headed home to Singapore towards the end of March. Until recently, Shahidah – who left nursing in 2017 – had been based in Koh

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