JAKARTA - The Head of the Greater Jakarta Ombudsman Representative, Teguh Nugroho, admitted that his party had received complaints about the difficulty of finding treatment rooms at Jabodetabek hospitals.
This difficulty is not only experienced by positive COVID-19 patients. It is also difficult for non-COVID-19 patients to get inpatient treatment at hospitals, including those who need urgent care such as accident victims, because of the full wards of the hospital.
"For non-COVID-19 critical patients, they are forced to do outpatient treatment. In fact, there are also accident patients who report to the Ombudsman, who are assisted in finding the fourth hospital because the previous hospitals had to sterilize the emergency room before being able to accept critical patients. an accident," said Teguh to reporters, Saturday, July 24.
The Ombudsman for the Greater Jakarta Representative tried to track the availability of isolation rooms and ICUs through an application provided by the government, namely Sinarap. However, the result was nil.
Teguh said, all the hospitals were full even though the application stated that ICU and ICU rooms were still available, there were long queues of patients waiting to get rooms and services.
"In the end, many reporters from the families of these critically ill patients were forced to self-isolate without adequate assistance and equipment," he said.
Teguh views, problems like this cause the patient mortality rate in the hospital to be quite high. Likewise with the deaths of COVID-19 self-isolated patients, both in the Jakarta and buffer areas.
"Many critical patients have just received isolation rooms after long queues and have experienced a severe deterioration or died during isolation because their conditions are already very critical," he said.
Therefore, Teguh said that the central government should view health facility services for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 critical patients in Jabodetabek from the perspective of agglomeration areas, such as screening of population mobility.
The Ministry of Health and local governments must accelerate the conversion and optimization of health workers, facilities and infrastructure for isolation homes into referral hospitals for critically ill COVID-19 patients in the Jabodebek agglomeration area.
This is because the buffer zones of Jakarta, namely Bogor, Depok, and Bekasi (Bodebek) are the main contributors to the fatality rate for West Java Province with a figure above 50 percent.
"According to the Ombudsman, the fatality rate is due to the collapse of hospital services in Jakarta and buffer areas. There are many reports to the Greater Jakarta Ombudsman asking for help in finding isolation rooms and ICUs in all hospitals in our public service surveillance areas," he explained.
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