All Hospitals In Jakarta Are Asked To Prepare Halls To Emergency Tents To Accommodate COVID-19 Patients
JAKARTA - The number of isolation beds and the COVID-19 ICU rooms in Jakarta is running low. This has caused the DKI Health Office to ask all hospitals in the capital to prepare emergency isolation places.
All hospitals were asked to prepare a large room such as a hall to be transformed into a treatment room for coronavirus patients.
This is stated in an application letter by the Head of the DKI Jakarta Health Office, Widyastuti, to all directors or heads of hospitals throughout DKI Jakarta.
"The DKI Health Office has conveyed to hospitals to take advantage of the presence of large-capacity rooms such as auditoriums, halls, meeting rooms, multi-purpose rooms, and others to be converted into COVID-19 patient care rooms", said Widyastuti as quoted from the letter of application, Thursday, June 24.
In preparing the COVID-19 treatment room, Widyastuti asked the hospital to continue to pay attention to hospital zoning and the flow of services for COVID-19 patients in accordance with infection prevention and control (PPI) rules.
In addition, all hospitals were also asked to set up large-capacity emergency tents in open spaces around the hospital environment, such as courtyards, parking lots, sports facilities, and others.
"Emergency tent as an emergency hospital area that functions as an expansion of the COVID-19 treatment room or COVID-19 ICU", she wrote.
Then, all hospitals were asked to convey the need for supporting assistance in preparing emergency treatment areas, such as tents, velbeds, medicines, medical supplies, and other medical equipment to the DKI Health Office.
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As is known, the surge in COVID-19 cases in Jakarta has resulted in the number of isolation beds and ICUs at the COVID-19 referral hospital in Jakarta being almost full.
As of June 23, the total beds prepared at 140 hospitals treating COVID-19 in Jakarta were 9.852 isolation beds which are currently occupied by 90 percent or 8.874 patients and 1.218 ICU beds which are now occupied by 86 percent or 1.048 patients.