Having Comorbidities, 2 COVID-19 Patients Are Intensive Care At The Mataram City Hospital

MATARAM - The Mataram City Regional General Hospital (RSUD), West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Province is still treating two patients who were confirmed positive for COVID-19.

"The two positive COVID-19 patients we are treating, one is a resident of Mataram City and one is a resident outside Mataram," said Director of the Mataram City Hospital, Ni Ketut Eka Nurhayati in Mataram, Antara, Wednesday, January 12.

The Mataram Hospital previously treated four positive COVID-19 patients, one resident of Mataram City and three other people who were residents outside Mataram. Two patients from outside Mataram have been declared cured so that now there are two people left.

Eka said the two positive COVID-19 patients were in the isolation room to undergo intensive treatment. Both were treated intensively because they had comorbidities or comorbidities.

"From the results of laboratory tests, the two positive patients were exposed to ordinary COVID-19, not the Omicron variant," he said.

The spokesman for the Mataram City COVID-19 Task Force (Satgas) I Nyoman Swandiasa previously said that the Mataram City resident who was confirmed positive for COVID-19 came from Punia Village, a 54-year-old man.

The patient was confirmed positive for COVID-19 through a PCR examination last Tuesday and is currently still undergoing intensive treatment in the isolation room of the Mataram City Hospital.

The patient was confirmed positive for COVID-19 due to co-morbidities with complaints of acute gastritis that had been suffered for more than two weeks.

In addition to chronic ulcers, he said, the resident also had a cough, lung infection and tested positive for COVID-19 after a PCR swab test was carried out. However, this resident who was confirmed positive for COVID-19 is known to have never traveled outside the area.

To break the chain of spread of COVID-19, said Swandiasa, a team from the Mataram City Health Service continued to trace the contact of the family who had interacted closely with the patient.

"The results of the contact tracing were all negative. Finally, the patient's condition is now gradually improving," he said.