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Holding Breaths for Ventilators

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Hospitals assigned to take in Covid-19 patients are lacking ventilators. Engineers from universities to automotive companies are racing with time to make ventilators in anticipation of a surge in coronavirus cases.

Medical staff checking on the ventilator at the Kemayoran Athlete Dormitory Covid-19 Emergency Hospital’s intensive care unit room, Jakarta, last March. ANTARA/Kompas/Heru Sri Kumoro. tempo : 173171340056.

FAISAL Yunus is relieved to see eight ventilators arriving at Persahabatan Hospital in Jakarta over the last week. Previously, the hospital, assigned to take in Covid-19 patients, only had four ventilators to be shared by 20 patients. “Thank goodness there were people who donated ventilators,” the lung specialist said on Friday, April 3.

Faisal said that the number of Covid-19 cases at Persahabatan Hospital continues to grow, with 40

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