How Does Severe COVID-19 Affect Kids?

Dr See Kwee Ching, Consultant Paediatrician and Neonatologist; Head of Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Sg Buloh

17-Feb-22 16:00

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Having a kid fall ill and be hospitalised is a parent’s worst nightmare, especially now that we are hearing of more cases of children with COVID-19 developing severe symptoms and landing in paediatric ICU. In some cases, kids are also developing multisystem inflammatory syndrome or MIS-C, a rare but serious condition linked to COVID-19. Dr See Kwee Ching, Head of Paediatrics at Hospital Sungai Buloh joins us to share how COVID-19 affects the child’s health, and what parents can do to continue protecting their kids.

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Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Tee Shiao Eek

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Categories: diseases and conditions

Tags: paediatric ICU, multisystem inflammatory syndrome, MIS-C, PICKids, the bigger picture, health and living, covid-19, picu, nicu, vaccination,

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