Erick Thohir: 65 State Hospitals Ready to Treat COVID-19 Patients

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) Minister Erick Thohir said as many as 65 state-run hospitals are ready to help the government handle the COVID-19 outbreak, including Pertamina Jaya Hospital. The hospitals, he added, had prepared 115 beds and 66 observation rooms or safe houses to treat the novel coronavirus patients.

Therefore, he said, those hospitals could accommodate a total of 221 patients. “I have informed the President that state-owned hospitals are ready to give a hand to handle the virus spread,” said the minister during a visit to Pertamina Jaya Hospital in Jakarta, Wednesday, March 11.

Erick Thohir expressed his appreciations to all medical and nonmedical personnel of the national hospitals for putting their efforts to serve the public 24 hours a day.

On the same occasion, Pertamina Director of Human Resources Koeshartanto said his company was set to back the government’s effort in dealing with the virus outbreak both internally and externally through its subsidiaries. “Such as through Pertamina hospitals managed by Pertamedika. We are set to mobilize our assets to handle this,” he said.

Meanwhile, Pertamedika IHC CEO Fathema Djan Rachmat said her side had prepared all services in Pertamina Jaya Hospital and other state medical centers from the infrastructure to the human resources such as doctors and skilled nurses in the wake of the COVID-19 spread in Indonesia.

ANTARA