ahmadajah03 Wed Mar 2020 2 years ago

Running out of Personal Protective Equipment, the Medical Team Takes the Initiative to Use Plastic Raincoats

TASIKMALAYA, KOMPAS.TV - The special medical team for handling the corona virus at the Soekardjo Doctors Hospital in Tasikmalaya uses plastic raincoats and boots.

This incident was caught on camera when the officers were about to take three suspected corona patients to another hospital.

A number of officers specializing in handling the corona virus at Doctor Soekardjo Hospital, Tasikmalaya, took the initiative to use plastic raincoats as personal protective equipment when referring three suspected corona patients to Gunung Jati Hospital, Cirebon.

This incident occurred last Sunday.

The Mayor of Tasikmalaya said that hospital standard medical personal protective equipment in the isolation room at Doctor Seokardjo Hospital had run out.

In Tasikmalaya itself there are 3 suspected corona patients.

One of them is a foreign citizen from the Philippines, one is a resident of Jakarta, and one is a resident of Tasikmalaya.

Meanwhile, the Governor of West Java, Ridwan Kamil stated that the West Java Provincial Government would provide assistance to the Soekardjo Tasikmalaya Doctor's Hospital which had run out of medical personal protective equipment.

This was conveyed by Ridwan Kamil after inaugurating the West Java Covid 19 information and coordination center command center, or called Pikobar.
Tim medis alat pelindung diri tasikmalaya virus corona