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Diphtheria patients increase, more isolation rooms needed
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A diphtheria vaccine is given to an infant at a health clinic in Cibinong, Bogor, in West Java, Dec. 5. (Antara/Yulius Satria Wijaya)
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he number of diphtheria patients at Sulianti Saroso Hospital in North Jakarta has continued to increase this week. As of Monday, the hospital had recorded a total of 98 patients, increasing from 25 patients last Friday.
Patients have come from across the Greater Jakarta area and Banten. Sixty-five of the 98 patients are children.
Director of Sulianti Saroso Hospital, Rita Rogayah, said that in the last week the hospital had accepted eight to 11 new patients every day. “Even though the total number of patients has increased, the number of patients brought to the hospital per week has decreased,” she said as quoted by tempo.co.
Rita said the hospital was in need of more isolation rooms to accommodate all the patients. Currently, it has only 22 isolation rooms available.
To solve the problem, the management of Sulianti Saroso Hospital has used regular rooms as isolation rooms to accommodate all the diphtheria patients.
“So, right now we have 98 isolations room, we're trying our best to accommodate all patients,” said Rita. (roi)
