Crowded Hospitals

Hospitals outside Java struggle with influxes of Covid-19 patients. Medical oxygen is difficult to find in many places. 

Raymundus Rikang

August 9, 2021

THREE days after the Idul Adha (day of sacrifice) celebration on July 20, Raihan, a resident of Pangkalpinang City, Bangka Belitung Islands, frantically searched for hospitals. That day, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test result showed that his wife had contracted the Coronavirus Disease 2019 or Covid-19, and she was having trouble breathing.

Raihan took her to the Depati Hamzah Regional General Hospital in Pangkalpinang, and found that all

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