Today while conducting our usual ward rounds, the speakers of each ward started beeping with a monotonous sound for a few seconds, and followed by a voice announcing "To all HODs and MOs of every department, please be on high alert; there is a plane crash landing in Sibu Airport. Standby for Disaster Plan". Everyone then stunned. All ward rounds stopped. Patients who didn't understand English, started gossipping around, asking neighboring beds what was going on...
As Paediatric Team, we had to rush to the assigned clinics, to standby as Green Zone Triage Support Team. And other disciplines will mainly stay put at the A&E. We could hear the wailing sounds of sirens all over, and even the Pertahanan Awam ambulances are sent off to the airport too. Nurses and attendants getting ready all the resuscitation trolleys and equipment; security guards controlling the traffic at every point of entry and exit of hospital; and every doctor had their hands gloved up (nice to see this for the first time in my working career!) Everyone of us was anxious, and anticipating what worst scenario there could be, in such emergency disaster. Which plane could it be involved in this? AirAsia or MAS?
2 hours later, another announcement made "Thank you for your participation in this emergency drill"! Everyone was like WTF! and minutes later all of us started to disperse ourselves back to ward. Although it was just a drill, i think it was necessary to make it like real life scenario... otherwise, if it was announced as a drill from the start, I am sure the turn up rate will be probably just 50% or less... and everyone's mood will not be there too!
Interesting experience for me for today! And thankfully there isn't a real crash landing happening in this peaceful town...
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