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Hospitali katika Kisiwa cha Java Nchini humo zinakabiliwa na uhaba wa Oksijeni, Dawa, Vitanda na Wafanyakazi wakati huu ambapo ongezeko la maambukizi ya COVID19 limepelekea Sekta ya Afya kulemewa.
Imeripotiwa kuwa, Hospitali kadhaa zimelazimika kufunga huduma za dharura kutokana na kukosa Okisijeni na nyingine zimefanya hivyo kwasababu Watumishi wengi wanaugua.
Indonesia ambayo ni miongoni mwa Nchi zinazokabiliwa na hali mbaya ya mlipuko huo Barani Asia ilirekodi visa vipya 34,379 na vifo 1,040 siku ya Jumatano.
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Hospitals across the Indonesian island of Java are running out of oxygen, medicines, beds and even staff as a sharp rise in Covid cases pushes the country’s health system to the brink.
Indonesia, which is facing one of the worst outbreaks in Asia, announced 34,379 new cases and 1,040 fatalities on Wednesday, both record highs.
Senior minister Luhut Pandjaitan said earlier this week he feared daily cases could reach as high as 70,000. The government said it was sourcing supplies of oxygen from Singapore to ease shortages.
“At worst, it [could reach] 60,000 to 70,000 cases per day, but I hope that doesn’t happen because our friends from police, military have done quite a good insulation,” Luhut said.
Hospitals across Java are already at a crisis point. Several have been forced to temporarily close their emergency rooms either because their oxygen stock is depleted, or because many of their staff have become ill, according to Indonesian media reports.
“It’s like a market outside the hospital … Even if you add 100 more beds it will not be enough. Patients are still going to flock to our hospital,” Syaiful Hidayat, the head of Covid-19 task force at Dr Slamet Martodirdjo regional hospital in Pamekasan, East Java, said on Tuesday.
The hospital is the largest in Pamekasan and is currently treating more than 100 Covid patients. The front yard has been converted into an emergency room, while the inside of the building is being used to isolate patients.
Although the hospital is fortunate that it can produce its own supply of liquid oxygen on site, additional oxygen tanks are still needed to support patients staying in tents.
The hospital is also facing staffing shortages after 10 of its doctors tested positive for Covid-19 this week. Emergency rooms that are usually taken care of by three doctors are now staffed by just one. On top of this, its supplies of remdesivir, the antiviral medicine, have run out.
“We usually use these injections for patients who are in critical condition,” said Syaiful, adding that they had been without the drug for 10 days.
Most people that have come to the hospital over the past two weeks arrived with very low oxygen saturation. “In these past two weeks 50 people died of Covid in this hospital. Most of them died before they had spent 24 hours being treated here,” he said.
Source: The Guardian
Imeripotiwa kuwa, Hospitali kadhaa zimelazimika kufunga huduma za dharura kutokana na kukosa Okisijeni na nyingine zimefanya hivyo kwasababu Watumishi wengi wanaugua.
Indonesia ambayo ni miongoni mwa Nchi zinazokabiliwa na hali mbaya ya mlipuko huo Barani Asia ilirekodi visa vipya 34,379 na vifo 1,040 siku ya Jumatano.
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Hospitals across the Indonesian island of Java are running out of oxygen, medicines, beds and even staff as a sharp rise in Covid cases pushes the country’s health system to the brink.
Indonesia, which is facing one of the worst outbreaks in Asia, announced 34,379 new cases and 1,040 fatalities on Wednesday, both record highs.
Senior minister Luhut Pandjaitan said earlier this week he feared daily cases could reach as high as 70,000. The government said it was sourcing supplies of oxygen from Singapore to ease shortages.
“At worst, it [could reach] 60,000 to 70,000 cases per day, but I hope that doesn’t happen because our friends from police, military have done quite a good insulation,” Luhut said.
Hospitals across Java are already at a crisis point. Several have been forced to temporarily close their emergency rooms either because their oxygen stock is depleted, or because many of their staff have become ill, according to Indonesian media reports.
“It’s like a market outside the hospital … Even if you add 100 more beds it will not be enough. Patients are still going to flock to our hospital,” Syaiful Hidayat, the head of Covid-19 task force at Dr Slamet Martodirdjo regional hospital in Pamekasan, East Java, said on Tuesday.
The hospital is the largest in Pamekasan and is currently treating more than 100 Covid patients. The front yard has been converted into an emergency room, while the inside of the building is being used to isolate patients.
Although the hospital is fortunate that it can produce its own supply of liquid oxygen on site, additional oxygen tanks are still needed to support patients staying in tents.
The hospital is also facing staffing shortages after 10 of its doctors tested positive for Covid-19 this week. Emergency rooms that are usually taken care of by three doctors are now staffed by just one. On top of this, its supplies of remdesivir, the antiviral medicine, have run out.
“We usually use these injections for patients who are in critical condition,” said Syaiful, adding that they had been without the drug for 10 days.
Most people that have come to the hospital over the past two weeks arrived with very low oxygen saturation. “In these past two weeks 50 people died of Covid in this hospital. Most of them died before they had spent 24 hours being treated here,” he said.
Source: The Guardian
