A motorbike taxi driver undergoes a health screening before receiving a dose of China's Sinovac Biotech coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine at a drive-thru vaccination station, as a mass vaccination program continues in Jakarta, Indonesia,on April 30, 2021. - Reuters
JAKARTA, May 1 (Bloomberg): As Indonesia’s borders stay shut for a year and counting, people who used to travel overseas for medical treatment are turning to local hospitals.
"More and more cancer patients are showing up at the hospital that I went to,” said Edyth Chatrina, a lawyer who took her 76-year old mother for lung cancer treatment at a Jakarta clinic run by PT Siloam International Hospitals.
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