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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Indonesia's medical establishment continues to reel from Covid-19, as the Indonesian Doctors Association or IDI announced that the pandemic killed over 700 doctors and nurses 

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Indonesian Doctors Association: Covid-19 Killed Over 700 Medical Personnel

The Indonesian Doctors Association or IDI and the Indonesian National Nurses Association (PPNI) revealed that Covid-19 have killed over 700 Indonesian medical workers, since it was first detected in Indonesia on March 2020.

“The total number of doctors who were killed by Covid-19 currently stands at 401,” said IDI Secretary-General M. Adib Khumaidi on Friday, June 25. He added that the figures ran from March 12 2020, to June 24 2021.

“The pandemic also killed 315 nurses.”

Adib suggested that medical personnel take extra precautions in handling Covid-19 cases.

“I urge doctors, nurses and other medical workers to constantly use Personal Protective Equipment [PPE] on the job,” he asserted. “I also advise our colleagues who are 65 years old and over to stay at home, or be on call when we ask for their aid.”

The number of fatalities has risen from by more than 200, since the last statistics for fatalities among medical personnel was taken in January 2021.

The figures, which covered the time period between March to December 2020, showed that 504 doctors and nurses were killed treating Covid-19 since the outbreak's detection in Indonesia in March 2020.

Source:

https://go.kompas.com/read/2021/06/26/042349174/indonesian-doctors-association-covid-19-killed-over-700-medical-personnel. 

ANTARA FOTO/MUHAMMAD IQBAL Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin speaks during a press conference in Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta. ANTARA/Muhammad Iqbal/aww.

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