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A Covid-19 patient died in Puskesmas in South Tangerang City. Unfortunately, the patient passed away after two days of waiting for the room. intensive care unit (ICU) that was not available.
Information about the COVID-19 patient who passed away was reported to the Twitter account @LaporCOVID. In the report, a COVID-19 patient reportedly passed away after waiting two days in the ICU ward of a hospital in the city of Tangsel.
Tangerang Deputy Mayor Benyamin Davnie is concerned about this incident. Benyamin admitted that the ICU wards of the Covid-19 referral hospitals in South Tangerang are currently 100 percent full.
The man who is familiarly called Ben said that the occupation of the ICU ward and bed occupancy At the Covid-19 referral hospital, there has been an increase in the last two weeks after the long Christmas and New Year holidays.
“There is an increase in COVID-19 patients in Tangsel, especially after the holidays yesterday. The ICU is 100 percent full and the beds are 95 percent full,” Ben said when contacted. detikcom, Saturday (1/23/2021).
The Covid-19 patient reportedly died about 3 days ago. The patient died at Puskesmas in South Tangerang City.
The ICU ward of the referral hospital is full
Benyamin then explained, the mechanism for handling COVID-19 patients in South Tangerang City, where someone who has been confirmed with COVID-19 must first report to direct line 119. Patients will then be referred to the nearest Puskesmas and then to the Puskesman later, who will find rooms for the treatment of COVID-19 patients to referral hospitals.
“So the person in question came in with a condition that was not mild, but it was already serious. The Puskesmas staff had already found an ICU room for the patient, but at that time the ICU was full. full 100 percent, “Benyamin explained.
He added that the Puskesmas had also found ICU rooms for hospitals in the buffer zone.
“We have also looked for hospitals in Jakarta, Depok, in Bogor, the city of Tangerang, in fact all the conditions are the same,” he said.
Tangsel prepared Pakulonan Hospital as a Covid-19 referral hospital to anticipate an increase in Covid-19 patients. Listen on the next page