Mohamad Hafiz Mukhsam and Mohammad Saffree Jeffree and Nicholas Tze Ping Pang and Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim and Azizan Omar and Muhammad Syafiq Abdullah and Khamisah Awang Lukman and Nelbon Giloi and Loganathan Salvaraji and Mohd Rahimie Abd Karim and Sahipudin Saupin and Yeap Boon Tat and Mohd Firdaus Mohd Hayati and Mohd Yusof Ibrahim and Assikin Muhamad and Syaza Putri Zainudin (2020) A University-Wide Preparedness Effort in the Alert Phase of COVID-19 Incorporating Community Mental Health and Task-Shifting Strategies: Experience from a Bornean Institute of Higher Learning. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 103 (3). pp. 1201-1203. ISSN 0002-9637
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world by surprise, causing millions of confirmed cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Hence, the Malaysian government announced a Movement Control Order at the start of the containment phase to flatten the epidemiological curve. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), a public university in Borneo, was accelerated into alert phase because of high risk of case importation from more than 400 China incoming undergraduates. Measures to mitigate the potential COVID-19 outbreaks in its population were taken by using conventional public health measures with special attention to task-shifting and widespread community mental health interventions. A Preparedness and Response Centre was established to overseer the mitigating measures happening inside the university. Measures taken included empowerment of frontline staff, strengthening of restrictions, strengthening university health center, vigorous contact tracing, widespread health education, maintaining cultural sensitivity, and establishment of early standard operating procedures and university continuity plans. Hence, UMS was able to ensure no importation of cases into its campus during both acute and containment phases at the nationwide level.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword: | COVID-19, Mental Health, Higher Learning |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Department: | FACULTY > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| Depositing User: | SITI AZIZAH BINTI IDRIS - |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Oct 2020 12:28 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2020 12:28 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26234 |
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