Bed Occupancy At The Wisma Atlet Hospital Continues To Increase Due To The Corona Cluster In Jakarta

Wisma Atlet (DOK ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Currently, the occupancy of isolation beds at the Wisma Atlet COVID-19 Emergency Hospital has increased again.

As of today, there are 4.019 inpatients at Wisma Atlet, or 67.05 percent of the total available beds. In fact, the bed occupancy ratio (BOR) of Wisma Atlet had decreased to 15.02 percent on May 18.

"There has been a significant increase in the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital Kemayoran. The higher the number of daily patients admitted, the more serious the situation is", said Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, in a Youtube video broadcast by the Presidential Secretariat, Friday, June 11.

Based on reports as of June 8, patients who entered the Wisma Atlet on that date were dominated by the Cipayung District, Ciracas District, and Pasar Minggu District. This area is a cluster of RT community-scale COVID-19 in Jakarta.

Wiku said that this unexpected development of the BOR increase must be immediately addressed by all relevant regional heads, especially Jabodetabek.

"There is an increase in daily admissions followed by an increase in drills at Wisma Atlet, of course, this is a strong warning for us", he said.

Because, according to him, local governments cannot continue to rely on Wisma Atlet as support for COVID-19 patient care facilities at the regional level.

"Anticipation of the increase in cases and an increase in the DKI Jakarta area and its surroundings must be done in order to minimize the possibility that hospitals and Wisma Atlet will be full at the same time and COVID-19 patients cannot be handled", said Wiku.

Wiku said that the number of cases was increasing, the number of beds was running low, and patients were not being handled properly because of the overflowing capacity of hospitals and health workers.

Activities that caused crowds, including inter-regional mobility that occurred during the Eid al-Fitr period yesterday, he said, should really be a valuable lesson that in fact, Indonesia is still struggling with the pandemic.

"It is very difficult for me to convey this development, but I still convey it because I believe that both the regional government and the entire community do not want this critical condition to repeat itself", said Wiku.

"This struggle will not end if the entire government and society do not work together to solve it", he continued.