"This morning at 8 a.m. local time, one patient died. (She) was seriously ill when she was sent here, though (now she has) died," Managing Director of RSPI Sulianti Saroso Mohammad Syahril stated here on Thursday.
The patient had undergone outpatient treatment at another hospital, and her health was not showing signs of improvement.
"The patient sent here from one of the government-owned hospitals was suffering from the condition of ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome), with severe pneumonia, and was on ventilator support," Syahri expounded.
"She came here last night and was given maximum therapy, but it did not work," he stated.
Meanwhile, results of the COVID-19 test conducted on the woman had yet to come out.
"It is still being studied carefully. The results are expected to be negative," he noted.
The hospital is currently tracing and looking for people, who had come in contact with the dead patient.
In the meantime, seven other patients had tested positive for coronavirus in Indonesia on Wednesday, with majority of them having contracted the infection abroad, a government spokesman for the handling of COVID-19, Achmad Yurianto confirmed.
"As of Wednesday, (we have) seven more patients, with most of them suffering from mild to moderate illness, except patients, who are identified as cases 29 and 30, with moderate illness. All of them are imported cases (of coronavirus)," he stated at the Presidential Palace compounds here on Wednesday.
The seven patients were identified as cases 28 to 34, he noted.
Only one patient, who had tested positive for COVID-19 in Indonesia, died so far. After recovery, two patients were discharged from the hospital recently.
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Editor: Sri Haryati
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