Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini knelt down on the ground and got into tears as she held a meeting with doctors and medical facility directors in Surabaya in the middle of the spike of COVID-19 cases in East Java’s capital city, which has become Indonesia’s center of the break out.
Risma, as the mayor is affectionately known, was holding a conference with the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) and regional authorities to talk about COVID-19 management at the Surabaya City Hall on Monday.
In the video, which went viral soon after the conference, the mayor, known as Risma, was seen kneeling down, weeping and apologizing after a pulmonologist from Dr. Soetomo Medical facility in Surabaya shared in the conference that the medical facility was overloaded with COVID-19 patients.
The medical professional said that the health center was overwhelmed with clients while also highlighting that there were still lots of locals of Surabaya who neglected the needed health procedure to prevent more transmission of the extremely transmittable virus.
The statement resulted in a momentary halt of the conference as Risma began to kneel down and cry.
” If you blame us [Surabaya administration], I won ' t take it. We can’t even go into the hospital,” she stated in tears as reported by tribunnews.com
Risma argued that her workplace dealt with difficulties in reaching out to the medical facility even when it attempted to provide aid, without explaining the information. She also said that her administration had undertaken different efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus.
” Please do not keep blaming us,” she stated while weeping.
East Java is presently Indonesia’s COVID-19 epicenter with a tally of 11,805 confirmed cases since Monday, going beyond the capital city of Jakarta that has taped 11,114 cases.
Based on the East Java COVID-19 task force report on Sunday, Surabaya taped half of the case of the province with 5,510 cases and 418 deaths.
In spite of the intensifying scenario of the pandemic in the region, the Surabaya mayor has actually been long caught in the ongoing feud with the East Java Guv Khofifah Indar Parawansa over how to handle the pandemic in the area.
An official at the East Java COVID-19 task force recommended that the city reinstate the massive social limitations (PSBB) in the wake of soaring new cases. Risma stated PSBB reinstatement was not in her administration ' s prepare for the time being as she would shift the focus to more screening and shutting down markets of shopping centers if favorable cases were discovered, declaring that the numbers showed ' downward trend '. (trn)
