Since Surabaya is the capital of East Java Province, all patients with severe symptoms are referred to hospitals in SurabayaSurabaya (ANTARA) - The bed occupancy rate (BOR) at hospitals across Surabaya City dropped, from 90 percent to 83 percent after the government offered additional health facilities, Surabaya Mayor Eri Cahyadi said here, Tuesday.
The mayor attributed the establishment of the Kedung Cowek Lapangan Tembak (Shooting range) Hospital and the Emergency Hospital at the Gelora Bung Tomo (GBT) complex to the decline in BOR at hospitals in the Surabaya area.
Cahyadi noted that hospitals in the Surabaya City area, apart from treating Surabaya residents, also received patients referred from other cities and districts in East Java.
"Since Surabaya is the capital of East Java Province, all patients with severe symptoms are referred to hospitals in Surabaya," Cahyadi remarked.
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"It is hard to measure the development of COVID-19 cases in Surabaya if we use the hospital BOR as a benchmark since patients from other cities and districts are also receiving treatments here (in Surabaya hospitals)," he explained.
The mayor also stated that the number of funerals conducted in accordance with health protocols to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 also decreased in his area during the implementation of level 4 public activity restrictions (PPKM).
According to data from the Surabaya City Green Open Space Cleaning Service (DKRTH), the number of bodies buried in keeping with the health protocols decreased, from 105 bodies on July 23, 2021, to 97 bodies and 98 bodies respectively on July 24 and July 25, 2021.
The first case of COVID-19 in Indonesia was confirmed in March 2020. Since then, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB( data, as of July 26, 2021, some 3,194,733 COVID-19 cases were confirmed, with 2,549,692 having recovered.
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Translator: Abdul Hakim, Raka Adji
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