The limitation of medical devices is one of the obstacles in handling coronavirus outbreaks (Covid-19) in Indonesia. Although Indonesia received a number of ventilator assistance from the United States and Australia recently, a number of parties did not remain silent and tried to overcome these limitations by creating a local ventilator. The Indonesia Ventilator (Vent-I) development team at the Bandung …

The ventilator assistance from the United States (US) as many 100 units have arrived in Indonesia on Wednesday, July 22. This was revealed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi on Thursday. “This is the first stage of delivery of a total of 1,000 ventilator units that will arrive gradually,” she said in a virtual press conference from Jakarta …

PT Pindad (Persero), an Indonesian state-owned enterprise specializing in military and commercial products, currently producing ventilators to combat Covid-19 pandemic. Pindad sells its ventilators at an affordable price so medical workers will be able to conduct treatment for Covid-19 patients. Deputy Secretary of PT Pindad’s Corporate Secretary, Herryawan Roosdyanto said that the ventilator that Pindad is currently developing is the …

Indonesia has been received donations from companies and foundation during Covid-19 pandemic across the country. Diversified conglomerate Santini Group, through its subsidiary PT Santini Logmax Indonesia (SLI), donated 10,000 bottles of drinking water to the emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients in the Kemayoran athletes village, Central Jakarta. SLI is the distributor of mineral water brand aoi-nano cluster. The company also …

Produce ventilators, rapid test kits domestically Indonesia will be ready for having personal protective equipment (PPE) to handle COVID-19 cases. This was announced by the Minister of Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita on Wednesday that saying about the readiness of Indonesia’s textile association and National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) to produce PPE. “Soon, protective equipment can be produced up to 16,000 …

Rapid tests have been being used to recognize people that get infected by the new coronavirus (Covid-19). However, currently the nation’s COVID-19 task force will administer more polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, which are believed to be more accurate than rapid tests. “It turns out that not all rapid tests are effective,” the task force’s head, Doni Monardo, said during …