Indonesia seeks more oxygen for COVID-19 sick amid shortage

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JAKARTA: Parts of Indonesia lack oxygen supplies as the number of critically ill COVID-19 patients who need it increases, the nation's pandemic ...

Medical workers wheel oxygen tanks at Dr Sardjito Central Hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Jul 4, 2021. A number of COVID-19 patients died amid an oxygen shortage at the hospital on the main island of Java following a nationwide surge of coronavirus infections.

This statement comes after Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikit said the government guaranteed oxygen supply for COVID-19 patients on Jun 26.At least 63 COVID-19 patients have died during treatment at Dr Sardjito General Hospital in Yogyakarta city since Saturday — 33 of them during the outage of its central liquid oxygen supply even though the hospital switched to using oxygen cylinders during that period, hospital spokesman Banu Hermawan said.

 

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Try China. The oxygen concentrators will help a good portion and can still be linked up with oxygen tanks. If China can supply India, China will be more willing to help out Indonesia.

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