DKI Given The Worst Report Card For Pandemic Handling, Deputy Governor: No Comment First

DKI Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria (DOK VOI / Rizky Aditya)

JAKARTA - Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria did not want to respond to the results of the Ministry of Health's (Kemenkes) assessment regarding the handling of the pandemic in the Capital City.

The Ministry of Health gave DKI an E or the worst score for controlling COVID-19. Riza was reluctant to comment because she did not know the details of the results of the assessment.

"I haven't read the results yet. I'll read them first, then I'll be of my opinion. Meanwhile, no comments first," said Riza at the City Hall of DKI, Central Jakarta, Thursday, May 27.

Riza admits that she will re-check the basis of assessment by the Ministry of Health to give a "red" report card to DKI. However, Riza still considers the handling of COVID-19 by DKI Governor Anies Baswedan and his staff to be quite good.

Without mentioning the data, Riza claims that the cure rate for COVID-19 cases continues to increase, the death rate continues to decline, health workers continue to be added, the bed capacity for COVID-19 patients is also under control.

"Together with the central government and the central Task Force, with Forkopimda, with all ranks, with all communities, with the private sector, collaborate to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. To reduce and break the chain," he said.

In a joint working meeting of the DPR Commission IX today, Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono Harbuwono said that his party had made an assessment of the control of COVID-19 cases for each province in Indonesia.

The value of the quality of pandemic control ranges from A, which is the best, to E, with the worst assessment.

An assessment of the level of transmission rate is made by indicators of the number of cases, the presence of imported cases, the emergence of case clusters, and the transmission of cases on a community scale. Then, this assessment is combined with the level of response capacity of the provincial government in handling cases, namely testing, tracing, and treatment.

As a result, DKI Jakarta is the only province that gets an E in handling a pandemic.

"We see that there are still many who are still in control, except for Jakarta. Jakarta has a capacity of E, because the BOR (filling of the bed) has started to increase and the tracing cases are not too good," said Dante.

Meanwhile, all provinces on the island of Kalimantan have a D, all provinces in Sulawesi have a C, in Java, except for Jakarta, have a D, almost all provinces on the island of Sumatra have a D, Bali are D, NTB are D, NTT are C, Maluku and North Maluku. with a C value, West Papua a D value, and Papua a C value.

"Based on the recommendations we made earlier in the matrix, there are several regions that have entered category D and category E such as Jakarta. But some are still in C, meaning that BOR is not too (filled) and provincial control is still good," he explained.