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title: "‘Emergency unit is full of crying kids’ Dr Rafidah shares harrowing reality inside Putrajaya Hospital"
url: https://weirdkaya.com/dr-rafidah-shares-reality-inside-putrajaya-hospital/
date: 2022-02-18
modified: 2022-02-18
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author: "Yu Ang Tan"
description: "PUTRAJAYA - \"In the place where I work, the emergency department is full of crying kids.\" This is what Putrajaya Hospital Medical Consultant and Nephrologist, Dr Rafidah Abdullah wrote in..."
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  - "Dr Rafidah Abdullah"
  - "Emergency Unit"
  - "Hospital Putrajaya"
  - "Malaysia"
  - "Rafidah"
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# ‘Emergency unit is full of crying kids’ Dr Rafidah shares harrowing reality inside Putrajaya Hospital

**PUTRAJAYA** - **"In the place where I work, the emergency department is full of crying kids."** This is what Putrajaya Hospital Medical Consultant and Nephrologist, Dr Rafidah Abdullah wrote in a Facebook [post](https://www.facebook.com/rafidah72/posts/10223958966015163).

![Dr Rafidah Abudullah Hospital Putrajaya 01](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/Dr-Rafidah-Abudullah-Hospital-Putrajaya-01.jpg)Photo: Facebook/[Rafidah Abudullah](https://www.facebook.com/rafidah72/videos/1304877843346955)

In the post, Dr Rafidah said that there has been a steady and worrying increase in children being admitted to the hospital for Covid in Malaysia, where most of them are experiencing fever, cough, and shortness of breath.

![Dr Rafidah Abudullah Hospital Putrajaya 02](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/Dr-Rafidah-Abudullah-Hospital-Putrajaya-02.jpg)

> **[To make matters worse], cases of other diseases are on the rise too, which has overwhelmed healthcare workers.**

At the end of the video, Dr Rafidah pleaded with parents to vaccinate their children against Covid as it has 'devastating' complications.

Watch the clip here:

Previously, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin warned parents that [unvaccinated children are at a higher risk](https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2022/02/04/kj-parents-will-not-be-forced-to-vaccinate-their-kids) of developing multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) or Long Covid and urged them to allow their children to get jabbed.

Read also: [Doctor Who Warns M’sians To Beware Next COVID Wave Received Order To Take Down His Statement On Twitter](https://weirdkaya.com/doctor-warns-msians-to-beware-next-covid-wave-order-to-take-down-his-tweet/)

**"Since January, there have been 9,413 Covid-19 cases involving children aged between seven and below 12 years old.**

“Although this is not a lot compared to adults, children who are infected are at risk of MIS-C as well as Long Covid, of which we do not know the true effects," he said.

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