Bad News Comes From Pekan Baru, All Beds For COVID-19 Patients Are Fully Filled

Spokesperson for the Riau Province COVID-19 Response Task Force Dr. Indra Yovi (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Spokesman of the Riau Province COVID-19 Response Task Force, Dr. Indra Yovi, revealed that the bed capacity of COVID-19 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in several hospitals in Pekanbaru City is fully occupied.

"It's 100 percent filled", said Dr. Indra Yovi in Pekanbaru, as reported by Antara, Friday, April 30.

The hospital beds were filled following an increase in COVID-19 cases that occurred in Riau Province in the last few weeks.

Indra Yovi emphasized that there is no other way than to reduce the number of COVID-19 patients, especially those with severe symptoms so that the beds in the hospital ICU are used up.

In addition, he continued, health protocols must also be tightened again. Then patients who experience symptoms immediately do the isolation, but in a place prepared by the government.

According to him, it is safer because it is supervised by officers and does not have the risk of transmitting to family members at home so that patients do not have to wait for severe symptoms to be brought to the hospital.

"Especially in Pekanbaru City. Because almost half of the COVID-19 cases in Pekanbaru, Riau Province. So if the handling in Pekanbaru is clear, the case in Riau will be finished", he said.

Based on data as of Thursday night, the number of COVID-19 patients being treated in Pekanbaru City reached 408 people, and those currently undergoing isolation reached 1,513 people.

Overall in Riau Province, 896 COVID-19 patients were being treated in hospitals, and 3,831 people are undergoing self-isolation. independently in various locations. During the period March 2020 to April 2021, 1,070 COVID-19 patients died in Pekanbaru