Oxygen Crisis: Prioritizing Saving People

A number of hospitals are having difficulties securing oxygen supplies for their patients. For the sake of saving lives, it is urgent to increase oxygen supplies, from both local and foreign manufacturers.

KOMPAS/FERGANATA INDRA RIATMOKO

An ambulance enters the Dr Sardjito Central General Hospital, Yogyakarta, Sunday (4/7/2021). Moments earlier, as many as 63 patients in the hospital died within a day and night when the oxygen supply to the hospital was running low.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS – The surge in Covid-19 patients has caused an oxygen shortage at a number of hospitals, including Dr. Sardjito Central General Hospital in Sleman regency, Yogyakarta. The shortage of oxygen supplies can be fatal for Covid-19 patients, especially those who require intensive care.

Dr. Sardjito Hospital president director Rukmono Siswishanto communicated the calls for assistance as regards the oxygen supply shortage to the Health Minister, the head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, the Yogyakarta governor and other related parties on Saturday (3/7/2021).