JAKARTA (Reuters) – As coronavirus cases surge in Indonesia, doctors are working double-time treating patients both at hospitals and online through healthtech startups – an approach that is quickly becoming part of the national healthcare system.
FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker wearing protective gear makes a bow during a test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside a stadium in Bogor, West Java province, Indonesia, April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo
Doctor Mohammad Risandi Priatama, 26, has treated 10 people with COVID-19 symptoms over the past month at a busy West Java hospital in a designated virus “red zone” – and provided consultation for scores more through the app Alodokter.
“Because there are limited healthcare facilities especially in my district, our people need more information that is easy to use without the need to go the hospital,” he told Reuters.
With a lack of medical staff and protective gear, and under 4,000 hospital beds for…
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