Jakarta – The Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) Indonesia has attracted Indonesian public and health workers to make cumulative efforts in combating the COVID-19 pandemic in the course to recognizing a disease-free country.
The COVID-19 reaction system in Indonesia must be conducted through correct crisis management so as not to develop brand-new problems, Dr. Yogi Prabowo, the president, medical volunteer and concurrently MER-C founder, noted in a declaration here on Tuesday.
Prabowo warned that in the wake of the crisis, particular reckless parties or groups might obtain excessive benefit by exploiting a divided country to enhance their own interests.
” Certainly, a nation being impacted by a disaster becomes the locus minoris for a foreign power to attack and manage it. Let us, fellow nationals, realize this right away. It is much better to unite and conserve this country from difficulty and the risk of other celebrations trying to manage the nation,” Prabowo remarked.
He called to expedite the lab process for COVID-19 tests to avoid friction in between community members and health employees on the field.
Prabowo expounded that anxious people require prompt certainty on whether their member of the family are secured from COVID-19 infection owing to the socio-spiritual impacts.
On the other hand, medical workers making every effort continually to help patients are forced to tender comprehensive explanations to their households throughout a complex situation while awaiting results of COVID-19 tests that might take a long time, he said.
The government should remain in a position to use an explanation on the legal aspects of the disaster to the neighborhood, so that the concern is not entirely borne by health employees, who are confronted by the families of distressed clients, he discussed.
” In the middle of this circumstance, the emotional well-being of health employees is at risk,” he stated.
Prabowo has actually welcomed all celebrations to work together and desist from developing new issues in the midst of the pandemic.
” Both parties (clients’ families and health employees) ought to exercise self-restraint since in the concept of disaster management, one of the secrets to success is ‘don’t make issues in struggling waters’ or ‘do not ignite fire near gasoline’.
Recently, numerous disputes erupted in between the patients’ relative and medical facilities over the burials of patients suspected of having actually contracted COVID-19 while the laboratory results were yet pending.
While the results of COVID-19 tests were waited for, a number of events emerged, including one in which the healthcare facilities had chosen to bury the clients in accordance with the COVID-19 health procedures, however the deceased patients’ households typically rejected such burials and were keen on a regular burial procession.
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