Become A Hyperbaric Chamber Research Center, Biak Hospital Has Treated Patients Can't See Due To Alcohol Poisoning

Hospital illustration. (Between-Galih)

BIAK - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) has designated the Biak Numfor Regional General Hospital (RSUD) in Papua as a Hyperbaric Chamber research center in Indonesia.

Hyperbaric Chamber is known to be one of the treatment therapies using oxygen that is greater than normal air pressure.

"The determination of the Hyperbaric Chamber research center at the Biak Hospital has been carried out to coincide with the Sah Teluk Cenderawasih Biak 2023 research center," said Director of Biak Hospital Dr Ricardo Mayor in Biak, Tuesday, January 23, as reported by Antara.

Ricardo said that the Hyperbaric Chamber of the Biak Hospital has succeeded in treating Biak residents, namely blind patients or unable to see due to poisoning in alcoholic beverages or liquor. The patient was treated with Hyperbaric Chamber and the result was that the patient's eyes could see alias recovered.

"Yes, this may be the only one in the world, the Hyperbaric Chamber of RSUD can cure blind patients due to alcohol poisoning, can see," he said.

He said oxygen hyperbaric therapy is the modality of treatment, where a person breathes 100 percent oxygen in a room with increased atmospheric pressure.

This oxygen therapy, he continued, by providing pure oxygen in a special room with high air pressure to be inhaled by the patient. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, he continued, is only carried out in a special room that can increase air pressure up to three times the normal atmospheric pressure.

"This increase in air pressure in the Hyperbaric room causes the patient's lungs to absorb more oxygen than usual, so that it can help the healing process of various diseases," he said.