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Jakarta recruits psychologists to provide COVID-19 counseling for medical workers
The Jakarta administration, through city-owned enterprise PT Jakarta Tourisindo (Jaktour), has started recruiting psychologists willing to voluntarily provide counseling sessions for medical staff on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 in Jakarta.
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Medics from RSUD Tarakan and RSUD Pasar Minggu arrive at city-owned Grand Cempaka Business Hotel in Central Jakarta. The Jakarta administration has prepared four hotels with a total of 481 rooms and 773 beds as accommodation for medical workers. (HO/Pemprov DKI Jakarta)
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he Jakarta administration, through city-owned enterprise PT Jakarta Tourisindo (Jaktour), has started recruiting psychologists willing to voluntarily provide counseling sessions for medical staff on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 in Jaka
Jaktour president director Novita Dewi said that 150 people had volunteered so far, but only 10 applicants met the requirements, while the remaining applicants were university students.
“We will only accept those with official certification,” Novita told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
The city-owned company, which manages several hotels across the capital, is currently hosting hundreds of medical staff dealing with COVID-19 in four of its hotels, namely Grand Cempaka Business Hotel and d'Arcici Alhijra Hotel in Central Jakarta, as well as d'Arcici Plumpang Hotel and d'Arcici Sunter Hotel in North Jakarta.
“[The medical workers] have been working very hard to treat COVID-19 patients so they might get stressed out," Novita said as quoted by kompas.com.
She said that the counseling would be done both online and offline, adding that face-to-face sessions would follow social-distancing measures and health and safety standards.
The application form can be accessed through https://tinyurl.com/Relawanpsikologjkt and applicants must attach their official certification in psychology.
As of Thursday, Indonesia had announced 1,790 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 897 of which were in Jakarta.
