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Bekasi builds hospital dedicated to patients with lung disease
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Bekasi is building a hospital that specializes in treating patients with lung disease. (Shutterstock/File)
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he Bekasi administration has disbursed Rp 70 billion (US$4.9 million) to build a hospital that specializes in treating patients with lung disease.
“We started building it in December,” said Bekasi Housing, Settlements and Land Agency’s construction and building department head, Inryd Arieswaty, on Thursday as quoted by tempo.co.
The four-story hospital will be located on Jl. Mayor Oking, East Bekasi. The administration aims to complete its construction by the end of the year to start serving patients in 2019.
Built on a 1,533-square-meter plot of land, the hospital can accommodate up to 100 inpatients.
Separately, the Bekasi Health Agency’s disease prevention and control department head, Dezi Syukrawati, said the number of Tuberculosis (TB) patients remained high in the area.
The agency recorded 11,960 TB patients in 2016, a slight decrease from 12,831 patients in 2015.
Separately, Bekasi General Hospital director Kusnanto Saidi said it was about time Bekasi had a special hospital for lung disease patients, as more than 100 people sought treatment in the pulmonary clinic in his hospital every day. (wnd)
