I'm Well! Referral Hospital In DKI Starts Reopening Health Services For Non-COVID

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JAKARTA - As of Monday, September 20, the number of active cases in Jakarta fell again, leaving 2,558 patients still being treated or isolated. Due to the decreasing number of active cases, DKI has begun to reopen non-COVID-19 medical services at each Regional General Hospital (RSUD) which is currently a COVID-19 referral hospital in stages.

"For that (the transition to non-COVID-19 services), we are proceeding in stages in line with the development of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Head of the DKI Jakarta Health Office, Widyastuti, at the Jakarta City Hall.

The transition process has begun and now the team has gone down to conduct an assessment at the RSUD which previously focused on treating COVID-19 patients.

"The team has gone to the hospital, and we are gradually returning several hospitals to start non-COVID-19 services," he said.

Widyastui said that this step was taken due to several pending elective actions for non-COVID-19 patients. Because the hospital is focusing on healing COVID-19.

"So that some elective actions that were delayed yesterday we can start again to be carried out in hospitals," he said.

Although it was not possible to mention the number and which hospitals would reopen non-COVID-19 services, Widyastuti said that later this would also be done at the central government coordinating hospitals and private hospitals in Jakarta.

"Of course our hospital coordinates with friends at the central level and also private hospital associations in DKI," he said.

Today's PCR to diagnose new cases with 91 positive and 12,786 negative results. The number of positive cases today is the lowest daily addition since June 29, 2020.

In addition, an antigen test was also carried out today as many as 99,537 people were tested, with 131 positive results and 99,406 negative results. The WHO test target is 1,000 people who are tested by PCR per million population per week (not specimens), meaning that the WHO target for Jakarta is a minimum of 10,645 people tested per week.