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7. Dr. Tan, you have done a wonderful job in

discussing liver diseases amongst COVID-19 patients.
What is your advice to other specialists who care for

patients with chronic diseases (ie. stroke patients,
chronic heart diseases, kidney diseases)?

Dr. Tan Soek Siam: I think COVID-19 is a new disease and certainly, there is a lot to learn.
Malaysia being a country with multi-ethnicity, and we have non-communicable diseases (NCD)
and infectious diseases. I think that this is the time to look at COVID-19 in different categories,
different specialties and subspecialties. This is the time to learn and to identify new things and
also how to improve our care for these groups of patients. I am sure that different patients would
require different care and different prognostic information. By knowing this, we can improve our
care for this arm of patients.