Ourtriders: Motorcycle volunteers escorting an ambulance carrying the body of a Covid-19 victim on its way to a cemetery for burial, in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta. — AP
NON-coronavirus patients are grappling with concerns that hospitals might refuse to treat them due to a recent surge of Covid-19 cases that has pushed the country’s healthcare system to the limit.
Dewi Safitri, 17, went to several hospitals in Jakarta to seek treatment for her mother, whose legs had been injured in a recent accident. All the hospitals she visited said they could not treat her mother, primarily because they were already full because of Covid-19.
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