Indonesia: Doctors plead for accessible health care as Covid-19 cases hit 194,000

Medical officers resting at a building after conducting Covid-19 swab tests in Depok, West Java. The virus cases in Indonesia rose by 3,444 within one day to 194,109, with the death toll adding by 85 to 8,025, the health ministry said on Sunday. - Jakarta Post/Asian News Network

JAKARTA, Sept 6 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The government must provide accessible health care for health workers and their families as the battle against Covid-19 seems far from over, the Indonesian Society of Respirology (PDPI) has said.

“Hundreds of health workers who have died (of Covid-19) prove that the pandemic is not a conspiracy made by doctors and health workers; it is real,” a pulmonologist and a member of the PDPI, Eva Sri Diana, said during an online discussion held by volunteer group Lapor Covid-19.