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  • Bali: New isolation ward to be built

    Major General Hospital (RSUP) Sanglah Denpasar, Bali, have a special building to treat people with bird flu or avian influenza (AI) Rp2, 6 billion.

    "With the completion of this building, the Sanglah have the facilities and infrastructure for handling the bird flu sufferer standards," said Director General Operations and Sanglah RSUP, Drg. Triputro Nugraha, in Denpasar, on Thursday (4 / 12).

    Building the bird flu is a special isolation room for bird flu patients with negative air pressure so that all the air out of the net. Bertekanan negative air space is to distinguish the normal treatment room.

    "Compared with the referral hospital of bird flu in the eastern part of Indonesia, we may have a more complete facilities," Nugroho said.

    "Fund building this budget comes from the Provincial Government (province) Bali in 2007 and 2008," he added.

    With the operation of this building, he said, the Sanglah are expected to provide optimal services to the people of bird flu. This building consists of two floors with a capacity of 27 beds.

    One floor of this building consists of four rooms, intensive with each one bed. On the floor, there is a special room for patients with the status of "suspect" bird flu, with a capacity of five beds.

    Meanwhile, the floor is a two-room treatment, which consists of three treatment rooms. In every room treatment consists of six bedrooms, so that the total capacity of 18 beds.

    Based on the record RSUP Sanglah, since the beginning of the Sanglah 21 patients have received the "suspect" bird flu, two of them expressed positive and 19 negative other. RSUP Sanglah last two patients receive the "suspect" bird flu in early 2008. Both expressed the negative of bird flu.

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