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Teguh Santoso is a nurse from Melawi, Kalimantan Barat. He becomes a volunteer in Emergency Hospital that is located in Wisma Atlet Jakarta. He is contracted for 3 months and can be extended as needed. Evidently, he is also a member of Perhimpunan Perawat Nasional Indonesia or PPNI. He started to be a volunteer since April 7^th, 2020. Before assigned in Wisma Atlet Jakarta, he joined a training in Balai Besar Pelatihan Kesehatan (BBPK)  Jakarta for five days through webinar learning methodology.

He said “I know, my parents and family will feel worried with me because they are afraid that undesirable incident happen to me. But, I convince them that this is my job as a nurse so that my parents and family don’t feel worried again”. Further, he explain about his job, “Wisma Atlet has 7 tower. Tower 1 until 3, they are used as medical officer residence. While, tower 4 and 7 will be used for the patient”.
Alat Pelindung Diri (APD), goggles glasses and N95 mask are obliged to wear during he gave a treatment to the patient. “During we use the protective equipment, sometimes we feel breathless because of the use of N95 mask in long period. Blurred vision also happen because we use goggles glasses and it makes our ear and nose become stratched. In addition,  during we use Alat Pelindung Diri (APD), we have to hold hunger, thirst, defecate and urinate” said Teguh.

As a sense of caring, he asked everyone to follow goverment’s rule by these ways:

1. Wash our hands using soap with 6 steps introduced by WHO. If there is no soap, you can use hand sanitizer.
2. Don’t touch your eyes, nose and mouth if your hands dirty because the research said that the infection of covid-19 from eye mucous membranes, nose and mouth.
3. Social distancing with minimum space 1 meter.
4. Stay at home if there is no necessity. If it is needed to go out, don’t forget to use mask. (Mask N95 is only for medical officer).
5. When comeback from the outside, please directly wash your clothes and take a bath to prevent the infection of the virus.
6. When you buy some products, its better to wash it first before use.
7. Keep the body’s immune system with enough sleep (7-8 hours), drink vitamin, eat healthy food and doing physical exercise.

He explained further, “Please follow government’s rule to prevent the infection of covid-19. Don’t refuse and give bad stigmatize to the medical officer. They are struggle and help the patient in recovery process” (Adopt from several news articles, credit: Aisha)