WARTAKOTALIVE.COM, JAKARTA The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about many changes in people’s habits. Among them are optimizing gadgets to launch daily activities that are still completely limited.
This includes obtaining health services, such as online consultation services with doctors (teleconsultation). Therefore, the need for teleconsultation soared during the pandemic, along with PPKM which is still ongoing today.
Because there are still many people who are reluctant to directly access health service facilities (fasyankes) in order to avoid the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
In fact, health facilities are a very important place in getting medical treatment and drugs for healing.
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The medical procedure during the pandemic has also become longer and not as flexible as it used to be because there are several provisions.
For example, a PCR swab test, chest X-ray, and other medical procedures must be carried out before medical action is carried out by a doctor. That’s why the presence of a health application for some minor ailments is very helpful.
Internal Medicine Specialist at Siloam Hospitals Kebon Jeruk Jakarta, Dr. Jeffri Aloys Gunawan, Sp.PD, who is familiarly called Doctor Jeff, said that doctors and health workers have become the frontline and key in handling COVID-19.
However, the efforts of health workers to raise public awareness and assist in healing often face obstacles.
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“Among them, the unequal distribution of the number of health workers and inadequate infrastructure for health facilities have made it increasingly difficult for some people to get treatment,” he said, Sunday (10/24/2021).
In addition, Jeff said, there are still many people who do not comply with health protocols so that the problem of Covid-19 transmission does not go away.
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