Non-coronavirus patients grow wary as hospital crisis looms
(WorldNews Indonesia)

Shares As the COVID-19 pandemic grows, non-coronavirus patients are worried about getting sidelined, while fearing that visiting hospitals might expose them to the highly contagious disease. In December last year, 24-year-old freelance TVC producer Gilang Prabu was diagnosed with grade two brain tumor. It took him months on the waiting list of two cancer hospitals in Jakarta to start chemotherapy in early March, in addition to separate and more frequent general and blood check-ups. Unfortunately for him, early March also marked the announcement of the country’s first two confirmed COVID-19 cases, although experts believe local transmissions occurred way earlier. The outbreak has...