The message was delivered during a visit to observe Tidar Ship, a designated floating centralized isolation facility in Papua, along with National Defense Commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto on Friday.
"I, and Mister Commander, and the team, are very grateful and happy to hear from our brothers and sisters that in the isolation center, (they) received great service, be it the facility or intensive monitoring from the healthcare workers," Prabowo stated as quoted from the National Police Human Resources Division's press release.
During the visit, the National Police chief and the commander-in-chief interacted virtually with patients and health workers undergoing isolation at the Tidar Ship floating isolation center.
He opined that Tidar Ship, the floating isolation center, had complete health support facilities, and was monitored intensively by professional health workers, so they could accelerate the recovery process of people exposed to COVID-19 with certain symptoms.
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Prabowo expects the public to coax or encourage their families and relatives that contracted the disease to self-isolate at the isolation center.
"Hence, of course, we are optimistic that information on the activities and facilities at the isolation center will be conveyed to other relatives that may still opt to conduct self-isolation at home," Prabowo noted.
According to the former Banten Police Chief, the floating isolation center was replete with health facilities and under the full direct supervision of health workers, so that the patient recovery rate would be higher.
Prabowo remarked that centralized isolation treatment could prevent transmission to other people.
"Please convey to your brothers and sisters that the floating isolation center has complete facilities, and we are all given assurance that with the available doctors and medications, recovery will hopefully be better. (It is better than) being treated at home. Please convey (the message) to those of you, who choose self-isolation over centralized isolation," the national police chief remarked.
On the same occasion, he also lauded the health workers, who strove relentlessly to treat people exposed to COVID-19.
"Thank you to the health workers for taking care of our brothers and sisters. Please continue to check (the patients) intensively every day, so that our brothers and sisters will soon recover," he remarked.
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Translator: Laily Rahmawaty, Mecca Yumna
Editor: Suharto
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