Dr Sardjono Utomo, world's fourth most populated nation's senior doctor and his wife Sri Martini, was admitted themselves to his local hospital in East Java late Tuesday afternoon. In just over 24 hours, his fellow doctors phoned every hospital one after another in search of a ventilator in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city and a few hours’ drive away, would both be dead.

The death of Dr Sardjono and his wife from COVID-19 has raised alarm bells in Indonesia where the pandemic has steadily gone from bad to worse and is now stressing importance on the country’s poorly equipped health system. The country is posting four daily record high numbers in the past 10 days, the highest was Dec. 3 with 8,369 new cases, the sources said more regional hospitals reaching full capacity. "It seems like the current overcapacity situation is the worst it has been throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia,” Halik Malik, spokesman for the Indonesian Medical Association, told news agency. 

Replying to the question why a senior doctor was unable to receive the treatment he needed, Dr Syaiful Hidayat, a pulmonologist who treated Dr Sardjono said there was just not enough room. He returned “Who do you want to kick out?”, “You can’t do that. It shows that COVID is here and it is real… It can happen to anyone and we won’t have enough beds.” Since March Indonesia reports 557,877 cases and 17,355 confirmed deaths adding another 70,000 suspected cases. 

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