Luhut Asks For Additional Hospital Bed Conversion In Yogyakarta

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment as well as the Coordinator of the Java-Bali PPKM Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan asked for the conversion of hospital beds (RS) for the treatment of COVID-19 patients in DI Yogyakarta. that the percentage of hospital care for COVID-19 patients in DIY is the lowest among all provinces in Java and Bali. It was recorded that only 6.1 percent of COVID-19 patients received treatment in hospitals. "In general, up to 20 percent of patients need to be hospitalized, so the situation in Yogyakarta can explain why the death rate is high," he said in a statement. written in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Thursday, July 29. Luhut added that the death rate in the province has continued to increase since the hospital bed occupancy rate (BOR) reached nearly 80 percent. Therefore, I ask the Provincial Government and Regency / City Government in DIY to immediately convert non-COVID TT (beds) into COVID in hospitals," he ordered. Patients with severe symptoms can be treated in hospitals. On the same occasion, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that he had received reports from several hospitals in Yogyakarta. a matter of the high mortality rate of patients who eventually died in the hospital. "I've come to DIY and talked to doctor friends in DIY, indeed many who enter with low saturation so that they died," he said.

With such a low saturation level, according to the Minister of Health, the sick Jogja community needs to get access to treatment either in a hospital or in a centralized isolation facility (isoter). The Minister of Health added that his party will immediately send oximeters to all Puskesmas in DIY. carry out saturation measurements, especially for residents who are isoman so that the handling is not too late," he said. Meanwhile, the Head of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) Ganip Warsito said that his party had done two things to intervene in the handling of COVID-19 in DIY. First, BNPB formed task force to add health workers and non-health workers in DIY. "This task force is in charge of regulating isoters as well as isoman and telemedicine, including coordinating with volunteers," he explained. BBWSO, UGM Student Flats, UNY Student Flats and Medika Respati Hospital.