Hospitals In Jakarta Can Be Calm, There Is Refill For Oxygen Cylinders At Monas

The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government provides an "Oxygen Rescue" post in the Monas area, Central Jakarta/ Antara

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government provides an Oxygen Rescue post or refilling oxygen cylinders in the Monas area, Central Jakarta. This is to meet the oxygen demand in the capital's hospitals as active cases of COVID-19 are still high.

Deputy Governor for Population and Settlement Control who is also Plt. Assistant for People's Welfare of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Secretariat, Suhart explained that his party is collaborating with PT Krakatau Steel to provide oxygen refills to support health facilities in DKI Jakarta.

The collaborations include providing additional tubes, refilling, and distributing oxygen cylinders to make it easier for all hospitals, both hospitals and private hospitals, to meet the growing oxygen demand.

"The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government wants to ensure that the oxygen supply to the hospital is smoother, so that various facilities are sought. We are trying to collaborate with other parties to be able to help provide oxygen both through the provision of tubes and tube filling," said Suhari.

In the early stages, refills were carried out for 250 oxygen cylinders filled with 6 m at 25 hospitals in Jakarta.

The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government will receive assistance in the allocation of oxygen cylinders measuring 6 m3 per day from PT Krakatau Steel. However, the opportunity for companies and other private sectors to collaborate is still open, given the positive cases that are still high.

"We invite more other parties to collaborate in meeting oxygen needs. Assistance can be provided in the form of cylinders or oxygen content. For the distribution and filling process, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government will assist," said Suharti.

In this mechanism for refilling and distributing oxygen cylinders with PT Krakatau Steel, one hospital gets a free refill of 10 large oxygen cylinders.

Then, the hospital delivered as many as 10 empty oxygen cylinders to the Rescue Oxygen Post to be carried by a fleet of trucks and DKI Jakarta Provincial Government officers to a filling station in the Cilegon area. The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has deployed cross-sectional ranks of Regional Apparatus Organizations to accelerate the process of transporting large volumes of oxygen.

Head of Health Resources Division of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Health Office, Purwadi, explained that the transportation of oxygen cylinders from Jakarta to Cilegon Banten uses a crane truck from the Water Resources Service, as well as a crane truck and a dump truck from the Highways Department. Every trip to and from Cilegon will be guided by a patwal from the Department of Transportation.

Two teams with a total of 40 people were also provided for loading and unloading oxygen cylinders at Monas and Cilegon. The process of transporting oxygen cylinders is carried out by implementing health protocols. Each officer has also been confirmed to be negative for COVID-19 on the results of the antigen swab.

Purwadi added that the filled oxygen cylinder was brought back to Monas, then the hospital could retrieve it. It is estimated that it will take five hours for a single delivery process of tens to hundreds of oxygen cylinders from Monas to Cilegon to return to the post.

"The Rescue Oxygen Post at Monas was opened during the handling of COVID-19 in the capital city. With this assistance and collaboration, it can help break down the density at oxygen filling stations in the Pulogadung area," he said.