RSPI Sulianto Saroso Almost Full Due To Overcrowding Of COVID-19 Patients

JAKARTA - The Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital (RSPI) in North Jakarta recorded the number of COVID-19 patients undergoing hospitalization experienced a high spike after the Eid holiday. The Main Director of the Sulianti Saroso RSPI, Mohammad Syahril, said the increase in the number of COVID-19 patients undergoing treatment had begun. May, after four months of decline. "So what the government said is true, if there is a spike. We are also currently feeling the spike. At the beginning of the year, January, February, March, April, we (room occupancy) have actually went down. Starting from May until now, it has gone up again," said Syahril as quoted by Antara, Thursday, June 17. Syahril revealed an increase in COVID-19 cases starting in May 2021, as the virus occurred in early and late 2020. Since RSPI started treating COVID-19 patients for the first time on March 2, 2020, at that time two patients with 11 beds were available. Gradually, The number of COVID-19 patient care facilities at the hospital continues to grow until now there are 123 beds, 22 of which are the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

"This RSPI is a hospital that treats (COVID-19) referrals. So (specifically) moderate and severe (COVID-19) cases," said Syahril. The current condition is that 95 percent of the 22 beds in the ICU are filled. or there is only one place left, while 100 beds in an ordinary inpatient room reach 88 percent occupancy.

In total, according to Syahril, the BOR at the RSPI is around 93 percent, so they are quite alert and careful about the level of need and occupancy of the COVID-19 patient care room. To anticipate this, Syahril urges the public to increase awareness, be aware, and be a warning of a spike coronavirus case.

"People with conditions like this become disciplined with health protocols (starting from) maintaining distance, (using) masks, washing hands, avoiding crowds, and so on. So be really disciplined so you don't add more cases," said Syahril.

Second, for the government, Syahril emphasized "tracing" by following up on active cases to find and check swab tests for people who have close contact with hospitalized patients.

Third, with soaring transmission rates, it is important to avoid panic that occurred at the beginning of the pandemic.

Syahril said that as an anticipatory measure, it is necessary to create a precise referral system, such as a close or asymptomatic category, self-isolation is sufficient.

"Well, of course vigilance from the Puskesmas, Regional General Hospitals, Emergency Hospitals, including us (RSPI), the system must be strengthened through the SPGDT or the Integrated Emergency Management System," said Syahril. Intensive care at a referral hospital. The system of care rules allows ordinary hospitals to communicate with the referral hospital when transferring patients with severe symptoms.