RSUDAM Prepares Telemedicine Access To Anticipate COVID-19 Spike

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BANDARLAMPUNG - Abdul Moeloek Regional General Hospital (RSUDAM) is preparing telemedicine access for self-isolated patients to anticipate an increase in COVID-19 cases.

"This telemedicine is one of various strategies that we will use in anticipating the spread of COVID-19," said Director of the Abdul Moeloek Regional General Hospital (RSUDAM) dr Lukman Pura, in Bandarlampung, quoted by Antara, Saturday, February 5.

He said the telemedicine access would later be useful for monitoring and treatment for patients who were confirmed positive for COVID-19 with mild symptoms who were undergoing self-isolation.

"So telemedicine is a communication channel so that we can provide condition information and therapeutic assistance for patients undergoing self-isolation," he said.

According to him, telemedicine is one of the surveillance and treatment strategies that is quite useful in anticipating an increase in COVID-19 cases due to the spread of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19.

"For residents who are currently self-isolating, they must meet a number of criteria, such as only patients with mild or asymptomatic symptoms with positive PCR results, meeting clinical requirements and housing requirements. The maximum age of the patient is 45 years, does not have cormobid, can access telemedicine, and committed to staying isoman before being allowed out," he said.

He continued, with these requirements the public can take advantage of the use of telemedicine to avoid physical contact when doing self-isolation.

"We hope that with the provision of access to telemedicine, patients who undergo self-isolation will have no difficulty getting access to health services," he said.

It is known that based on data from the Lampung Provincial Health Office, since the past week there has been a significant addition of positive confirmed cases of COVID-19 from the previous 20 cases in a day to more than 100 cases in a day.

This week there were 592 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the total cases to 50,439 people who were positive for COVID-19.

Then it was recorded that during the last two years a total of 3,830 people died from COVID-19, and 45,666 people recovered from COVID-19.