Death of senior Indonesian doctor rings alarm bells


Tragic fate: Dr Sardjono and his wife died from Covid-19 after they were turned away from various hospitals in Surabaya. — Reuters

Dr Sardjono Utomo, a senior Indonesian doctor, admitted himself to his local hospital in East Java late Tuesday afternoon.

In just over 24 hours, as his fellow doctors phoned hospital after hospital in search of a ventilator in Surabaya and a few hours’ drive away – the doctor and his wife, Sri Martini, would both be dead.

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