JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan revealed, as many as 30 units of oxygen concentrators will arrive in Indonesia, Friday, July 9 today.

The oxygen concentrator unit is part of the 10,000 oxygen concentrator purchased by the Indonesian government from Singapore.

"So 30 units of oxygen concentrator which are part of the 10,000 units purchased by the Indonesian government today were sent from Singapore by flight, the rest were sent by the sea together with cylinder tubes filled with oxygen", said Coordinating Minister Luhut in a written statement.

In addition to the oxygen concentrator, Minister Luhut explained that the government will also buy 7 units of an oxygen generator and 36,000 tons of oxygen for the next 30 days.

"So it's not only aid or donations, but also medical equipment purchased by the government", explained Minister Luhut.

Along with the arrival of the 30 oxygens, medical equipment assistance from the Singapore Government for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also arrived in the form of 200 ventilators and 256 40 L empty oxygen cylinders.

Furthermore, the Singapore Ministry of Defense aids in the form of health-protective equipment, namely 756 oxygen cylinders, 600 oxygen concentrators, 220 ventilators, and PPE equipment including surgical masks, N95 masks, and complete surgical equipment/PPE.

Besides that, aid from Australia is also scheduled to arrive today with an aircraft that will carry 1000 ventilators.

Until next week, several international aid arrivals will be scheduled, including the 250,000 Sinopharm vaccines, aided by the United Arab Emirates.


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