My dad Dr Peter Tun died from COVID19 because of the lack of PPE. My hope in writing this is that it will save more doctors and nurses lives and avoid pain for their families. My dad would have wanted to speak up if he thought it would save lives. [Thread 1]

The day he found out there was a positive for COVID19 in his ward, dad told me that he had earlier complained to a manager bc they took PPE away from his ward to take somewhere else. He was told that if there was a case, they would bring it back. He replied it would be TOO LATE.

The last he told me, there were 4 more positive patients with no symptoms. 2 weeks later, my dad passed away and I couldn’t do anything. [3]

Please do everything to protect the doctors and nurses. They go in scared and for their families. They did not get into the profession to die a hero in battle. This is why he was a superhero to us. He was scared and still went in to help strangers completely knowing the risk. [4]

He was afraid he would give this to my mum and now she is in hospital also waiting for her test results. The thought that if only he had a proper protective mask, he might still have been able to enjoy his hard earned retirement after a lifetime of service just kills me. [5]

I hope this won’t cause distress or take attention away from the need to help people but we need to also protect the people trying to protect us. [6]

We couldn’t protect my dad so I want to help protect everyone else who is in the same position that he was. Thank you for everything to all the heroes.