Ministry Of Health Adds 45,592 Hospital Beds

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health has added 45,592 units of treatment beds in hospitals as an effort to overcome the surge in COVID-19 patients that is now occurring in various regions.

"Since May 17, 2021, the number of beds for COVID-19 patients in Indonesia has increased by 45,592. Currently, the number is 124,747", said Health Ministry COVID-19 Spokesperson Siti Nadia Tarmizi, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, July 21.

Nadia said that of the total 124,747 isolation and intensive care beds, 91,787 units are currently being used to treat COVID-19 patients.

According to Nadia, there has been an increase in the number of isolation and intensive beds in hospitals. Addition of 1,284 beds in the DKI Jakarta area. With the addition of 1,170 beds in the Bandung area and for the Semarang and Solo areas there was an addition of 530 beds for COVID-19 patients.

"An additional 668 beds for COVID-19 patients in the Yogyakarta area and 423 beds for COVID-19 patients in the Bali area", she said.

Nadia also reported that out of a total of 3,083 hospitals in the country, 990 of them have been designated as hospitals serving COVID-19 patients.

"This is very possible to be added, given the escalation of needs in the field", she said.

In addition, the Ministry of Health is also reorganizing services for COVID-19 patients, where centralized isolation is carried out in training facilities or hajj dormitories.

Meanwhile, moderate and severe cases of COVID-19 are handled in field hospitals or type D hospitals. Intensive case management is carried out at COVID-19 referral hospitals type C, B, and A.*