Ministry Of Health: Isolation Rooms In Reference Hospitals Throughout Indonesia Are Still Adequate

Director of Referral Health Services of the Ministry of Health Rita Rogayah (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health has revealed that the availability of isolation rooms in all COVID-19 referral hospitals in various Indonesian provinces is still adequate to treat COVID-19 patients.

Based on the Ministry of Health's press statement quoted in Jakarta, Wednesday, it was stated that currently in Indonesia there are 903 COVID-19 referral hospitals as the capacity for isolation rooms continues to increase.

"Currently we have 132 Ministry of Health referral hospitals and 771 referral hospitals based on the governor's decree. With the increase in the number of referral hospitals, the capacity of hospitals with isolation rooms will increase, ”said Director of Referral Health Services at the Ministry of Health, Rita Rogayah, as reported by Antara , Wednesday, October 14.

Currently, he said, the isolation room continued to increase from March to October. From the COVID-19 referral hospital there are 35 thousand beds while from the referral hospital based on the governor's decree there are 51,222 isolation beds.

"So we see that at this time, especially the focus of attention is Jakarta. Jakarta currently has around 5 thousand beds. This addition can be seen from this one month, which previously had 4 thousand now has 6 thousand beds, "he added.

He explained that Jakarta is one of the 11 priority provinces for handling COVID-19 by the government. The 11 provinces include DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, South Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, North Sumatra, Bali, Papua, Banten, and Aceh.

"The capacity of the 11 existing provinces, the percentage of use of isolation rooms is still at 40 to 60 percent. The condition for the ratio of use of the bed to the available isolation space is still sufficient. Hopefully there will be no more cases, but we are preparing a COVID-19 referral hospital based on both the Minister of Health and the governor's decree, "said Rita Rogayah.

Data reported by the COVID-19 Task Force as of Wednesday (13/10) 2020 COVID-19 cases increased by 3,906 cases, bringing the total to 340,622 cases. Meanwhile, 4,777 patients recovered with a total of 263,296 COVID-19 patients.

Meanwhile, cases of positive COVID-19 patients who have died have increased by 92 to 12,027 deaths.