After coming down with a fever three weeks ago, an expat was admitted to Phnom Penh's Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. In the second of our personal essays looking at life during COVID-19, we publish their personal account of life inside a Cambodian government quarantine
For the first few days, you don’t think you’ll be here very long – and then you’re just stuck in a room. After that first wave of very painful experiences, things got better and you get used to it. You feel some sort of acceptance and indifference, you make a routine.
From when I first got here, things went well for a while until four new people came in. So there is a bit of a privacy problem here as well.
Things got a bit out of hand yesterday. They told me my viral load is very low, we’re sure you’ll test negative tomorrow and this and that, but they were giving us false hope. And then I think it hit us hard when we called them and they said, «Yeah, we got them last night and they were positive».
Staff come in only a few times a day and are in and out fast, don’t talk much to patients, so we feel that staff are scared. I know that some of them are volunteers so we don’t blame them.
I don’t want to be negative. You have frustrations when you’re inside here because you keep getting ups and downs, positive news, negative news.
I’m just very happy that my name didn’t get published, because a foreign guy had his passport go online after the police put it on their Facebook. Another foreign guy as well, his passport went online. So I’m happy mine wasn’t all over the news
This article was written by ANDREW HAFFNER (TRANSCRIBED)
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