Hospitals more cautious, adjust services as Indonesia forges Covid-19 'new normal'

Medical staff check the readiness of the equipment in the ICU room of the Covid-19 emergency hospital in the former athletes village in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta on March 23. - Kompas

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Long queues and a throng of visitors are no longer common sights in hospitals across Indonesia as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and it is likely to stay that way even as the country enters the so-called “new normal”, according to experts.

Hospitals and doctors’ associations are preparing protocols for the new normal period, which will include the Covid-19 screening of patients, limiting not only the number of patients and visitors but also procedures, by relying more on telemedicine, among other facilities.