President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo talking to a pulmonologist who works at a Covid-19 referral hospital in Jakarta through a video call on Sunday (Sept 27, 2020). - The Jakarta Post/ANN
JAKARTA, Sept 27 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): As the number of new cases keeps mounting, even one of the foremost Covid-19 referral hospitals in Jakarta faces a shortage of medical workers, a pulmonologist told President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in a video call on Sunday.
“Insya Allah (God willing), we have enough medical equipment. However, we are short of (medical) workers, while the number of patients keeps rising, ” pulmonologist Faisal Rizal Matondang from the Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital (RSPI) said.
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