Indonesian doctor Tri Maharani felt that she could cope with any disaster because she has attended to patients injured in tsunamis to volcanic eruptions for …
Indonesian doctor Tri Maharani felt that she could cope with any disaster because she has attended to patients injured in tsunamis to volcanic eruptions for the past 22 years. But she was not prepared to be struck down by Covid-19 herself. “In the first days, I was very distressed. As a human being, I’m scared. I fear death,” Dr Tri told The Straits Times. “In the first, second and third days, I cried and after check-ups my pneumonia worsened, affecting my lungs,” she said. Dr Tri, Indonesia’s only toxinologist and advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) on snakebite management, however, said she quickly got over her fears and was able to change her mindset, “no longer sad, troubled and disappointed.
