Raincoats and donations: Indonesia's doctors battle COVID-19 surge

Raincoats and donations: Indonesia's doctors battle COVID19 surge

JAKARTA: Reduced to sharing goggles and cheap raincoats, Indonesia's under-equipped doctors are battling a tide of COVID-19 infections that is overwhelming its creaky healthcare system - and killing their colleagues.

"I was shaking so bad, and the nurse was trembling," Gunawan, who later tested negative for the illness, said of treating patients."Doctors are scarce in Indonesia and if they die we'll have fewer people to treat patients," he added. The Indonesian Doctors' Association has warned that the coronavirus crisis is much worse than reported and the government's response is"in tatters".

"The government's official data doesn't reflect the real picture of infections across the country," said Halik Malik, a spokesman for the doctors' association.

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