On July 15 (Thursday), we will unveil around 300 thousand medicine packages for infected people experiencing mild symptoms
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan confirmed that President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will unveil free medicine packages for mildly symptomatic COVID-19 patients on Thursday (July 15).

"On July 15 (Thursday), we will unveil around 300 thousand medicine packages for infected people experiencing mild symptoms. Of course, this is in keeping with the doctors' directives," the minister noted at the virtual Investor Daily Summit 2021 here on Wednesday.

Pandjaitan remarked that the 300 thousand medicine packages will be distributed on a weekly basis to mildly symptomatic COVID-19 patients. The medicine packages will reach 210 thousand active COVID-19 patients.

The therapeutic medicine packages comprises package 1 for asymptomatic patients (10 percent), package 2 for patients with symptoms of fever and loss of sense of smell or anosmia (60 percent), and package 3 for patients with symptoms of fever and cough (30 percent).

Pandjaitan, concurrently the coordinator for Java Bali emergency public activities restriction (PPKM) explained that the government has also ensured oxygen availability in the midst of rising number of COVID-19 cases recently.

Pandjaitan noted that oxygen generator supplies had begun arriving from China and Singapore.

"We hope that starting this week oxygen supplies will increase. We have received 1,500 five- and 10-liter capacity oxygen generators from China. We have also received few thousands from Singapore. Probably we will receive around 10 thousand this month. We are also planning to import oxygen generators, starting from 40 thousand," he expounded.

The oxygen generators will then be used to treat patients with mild symptoms.

In addition, the government has sought to increase the number of beds for COVID-19 patients. The Indonesia National Defense Forces (TNI) has mobilized the establishment of emergency tents and converted their facilities to function as nursing rooms for patients with mild and severe symptoms.

"We have converted the hospital in (Pondok Gede) Hajj Dormitory having 150 beds and also at Pertamina. Additionally, we have deployed human resources, with 2,200 fresh graduate doctors alongside 20 thousand nurses," Pandjaitan stated.

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Translator: Ade irma Junida, Fadhli Ruhman
Editor: Sri Haryati
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