Bantul COVID-19 Hospital Patient Who Ran Away Found Dead In A Fish Pond

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BANTUL - A patient at the Bambanglipuro Special Field Hospital for COVID-19, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region, who was suspected of trying to escape, was found dead in a fish pond. This pool is adjacent to the health facility.

"This morning I received a report in the group from the doctor on duty that there was a patient who was not in bed, had been searched everywhere but could not find the patient," said Head of the Bambanglipuro Bantul Special Field Hospital, Tarsisius Glory, quoted by Antara, Tuesday. , August 3rd.

He received information by telephone, the hospital reported that a body was found in Lusiana Sarjilah's fish pond at 07.30 WIB.

"Then I said don't take any action, prepare an evacuation team from RSLKC, I immediately contacted Pak Polsek Bambanglipuro to inform him of these events so that an Inafis team immediately dispatched to help us identify in the field," he said.

According to Tarsisius, based on the results of the police identification in the presence of related parties, the corpse found was Agus Riyadi, born July 18, 1980, a resident of Demi Village of Wukirsari, Imogiri District, Bantul, or a COVID-19 hospital patient who was previously not in bed.

"So indeed I have received a report from the RSLKC Bantul, that since last night I had treated Mr. AR (Agus Riyadi) at the field hospital, and the conclusion was that during the TKP, Mr. Bambanglipuro Police Chief and all the teams had attended," he continued.

According to Tarsisius, the patient was originally a COVID-19 patient who was previously treated in the Niten isolation shelter, but was referred to the COVID-19 Field Hospital on Monday, August 2 because he had symptoms of shortness of breath and required intensive care with oxygen.

"This patient was confirmed positive on July 30, and the assessment of the puskesmas was quite isolated in the district shelter, entered Niten on July 31, and it turned out that there the patient was found to be short of breath and immediately put in an isolation room," he said.

It is suspected that the patient was about to run away or leave the Field Hospital due to depression, considering that when he was being treated at the Field Hospital, the doctor reported that the patient often wanted to remove the equipment attached to his body because he felt he was not experiencing any symptoms.