Indonesia: Grave crisis in Jakarta as COVID-19 cemeteries run out of space

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Source: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news...-as-covid-19-cemeteries-run-out-of-space.html

Grave crisis in Jakarta as COVID-19 cemeteries run out of space
News Desk The Jakarta Post
Jakarta / Mon, December 28, 2020 / 08:26 pm

The Jakarta administration has allowed bodies of COVID-19 patients to be buried outside of dedicated graveyards.

The coordinator of the Pondok Ranggon COVID-19 public cemetery, Muhaemin, said the new regulation was aimed at addressing a shortage of graves at dedicated cemeteries.

He went on to say that the city administration had drawn up a list of criteria for burying bodies at Pondok Ranggon in East Jakarta or the Tegal Alur public cemetery in West Jakarta.

“We’re experiencing a grave crisis since Nov. 8. Now, all COVID-19 cemeteries are full,” said Muhaemin, as reported by antaranews.com on Monday...

 

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Things appear to be reaching a crisis in Indonesia

Covid patients turned away as hospitals in Indonesia face collapse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/covid-patients-turned-away-as-hospitals-in-indonesia-face-collapse

Health experts in Indonesia have warned that hospitals in some areas are on the brink of collapse as the nation passed one million confirmed cases of coronavirus.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-away-as-hospitals-in-indonesia-face-collapse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-away-as-hospitals-in-indonesia-face-collapse

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Halik Malik, a spokesman for the Indonesian Doctors Association, said that in several regions patients had faced difficulties accessing Covid-19 intensive care units and isolation rooms, due to a rise in demand. “It seems that the current overload or overcapacity situation is the worst during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia,” he added.

The health ministry announced that new daily infections rose by 13,094 on Tuesday to bring the country’s total to 1,012,350, the most in south-east Asia. The total number of deaths reached 28,468.

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If the number of cases does not begin to fall over the next week, hospitals in Java and Bali would collapse under the pressure, said Lia Gardenia Partakusuma, secretary general of the Indonesian Hospital Association (PERSI).

“Collapse means we will be in a condition where we can only treat the patients that are already in the hospital,” she said, adding that currently hospitals have little choice but to ask patients to queue for hours in emergency rooms.

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