JAKARTA, Feb 14 (The Straits Times/ANN): A grassroots movement in one of Indonesia's worst-hit regions for Covid-19 has emerged to ease a crisis in healthcare in the country with hospitals unable to cope as patient numbers surge.
Last month, Sonjo, a WhatsApp community group in Yogyakarta, a province on Java island, tapped into their network to help the district government turn a disused hospital into an isolation facility to house Covid-19 patients with moderate to no symptoms.
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