Table of contents:
- Doctors and medical personnel who died from COVID-19
- 1,024,298
- 831,330
- 28,855
- Assistance that medical personnel need and that the community can provide
- The assistance that medical workers need and what the government can do
The days have turned into months. It has been six months since Indonesia has been in a coronavirus pandemic. Various efforts from the health sector have been tried. However, the spread has not stopped, hundreds of lives have not been saved, including doctors who are fighting COVID-19 on the front lines of war.
Doctors and medical personnel who died from COVID-19
As of August 31, 2020, the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) noted that as many as 100 doctors had died from COVID-19. Meanwhile, the Indonesian National Nurses Association, in mid-July, reported that at least 51 nurses had died from contracting the coronavirus. This number does not include other health workers in various areas who have been infected with COVID-19 and have been forced to close access to hospital facilities.
Losing hundreds of health workers was a major defeat. Especially considering the ratio of doctors in Indonesia is 0.4: 1000, aka 1 doctor for 2,500 people. This means that the loss of 100 doctors is the same as the loss of the ability to provide health services for 250,000 people.
Doctors and medics are at the forefront of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. On the one hand, their focus at work determines patient safety. On the other hand, this profession puts them in the position most vulnerable to attack.
Every doctor and nurse must be equipped with complete PPE according to the standards for handling the COVID-19 outbreak. Both medical personnel who face positive COVID-19 patients as well as medical personnel who handle patients with other complaints.
The step is to use complete personal protective equipment (PPE), maintain distance, and minimize contact. Unfortunately, PPE as one of the most important weapons has not yet been fulfilled in various regions.
This makes the vulnerable position of medical personnel even more urgent.
COVID-19 Outbreak updates Country: IndonesiaData1,024,298
Confirmed831,330
Recovered28,855
DeathDistribution MapThe medical personnel know very well the dangers of the job position, but they are still there. Facing unseen enemies in ten thousand raincoats.
These doctors know very well the dangers of fighting COVID-19 without proper PPE, but they are still there.
Thank you so much, Hero of Humanity!
Assistance that medical personnel need and that the community can provide
To respect the doctors and medical workers who are in prime locations fighting COVID-19, the public is asked to stay at home. The appeal is added with the recommendation to do physical distancing and avoiding physical contact in order to minimize the potential for transmission.
The medics moved campaigning, "We keep working for you, you stay home for us." They advised the public to stay at home to help medical staff so as not to flood with patients which could result in patients not being treated.
The campaign is increasingly being echoed by public figures, celebrities and the public on social media. It is hoped that the campaign will be able to make the public more aware as well as stimulate the fundraising movement.
But that alone is not enough to help doctors fight COVID-19.
“Now we don't lockdown, only appeals that are true in the field are not all obedient due to many factors. We don't do either massive screening, wear it rapid test the results are less (accurate), "said dr. Jimmy Tandradynata Sp.PD, specialist in internal medicine at Siloam Hospital Cilandak, Jakarta.
Doctor Jimmy predicts that if it continues like this, doctors' struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia will still be going on for months to come.
The Indonesian government from the beginning emphasized that lockdown or city quarantine is not their option in handling COVID-19.
At the end of March (31/3), the government established a Large-Scale Social Restriction (PSBB) rule. President Jokowi said that any decisions made by the government regarding the handling of COVID-19 must be done carefully and not in a hurry.
This presidential regulation first took effect in Jakarta on Friday (10/4). On that day, the positive number of COVID-19 in Indonesia had reached 3,512 people.
The assistance that medical workers need and what the government can do
To assist doctors and medical personnel in dealing with COVID-19, there needs to be extraordinary efforts from all sectors, especially the government.
According to dr. Tri Maharani, handling COVID-19 requires a tie for all movements that have been carried out.
The Head of the Emergency Room (IGD) RSUD Daha Husada, Kediri, emphasized that government regulations are a key determinant of success against the coronavirus pandemic in Indonesia.
Doctors thought that if Indonesia had been on the move since the virus first emerged from China in early January, perhaps hundreds of lives could not have been saved.
The past is not to be regretted but also to be learned. Doctors are currently asking for the support of all parties, especially the government, to help them fight COVID-19.
Some of them are: ensuring the availability of PPE, controlling prices, training medical personnel, and providing the tools needed for handling life threatening(life threatening) like a ventilator.
On Friday (10/4), the Central Executive for the Chairperson of the Indonesian General Practitioners Association (PDUI) wrote an open letter entitled 'My Country Don't Lose' for President Jokowi. PDUI asked Jokowi to guarantee the availability of PPE for medical officers.
"Hundreds of thousands of health workers are restless, troubled, anxious, anxious, and angry because PPE is scarce. While their consciences are disturbed, they can't bear to watch their patients hopefully in pain, "wrote the Chairperson of the PDUI, Dr. Abraham Andi Padlan Patarai, M.Kes in the letter.
"Our colleagues, the doctors who have died, have more than 30 people. How much more should be added to the death list, ”he continued.
