With the global spread and prolonged transmission of the new coronavirus, the response capacity of doctors, nurses, medical engineers, and other medical personnel responsible for treating critically ill patients or those at risk is low in developing countries, and intensive care facilities (ICU) capable of isolating infected patients and providing intensive care are also in short supply. Against this backdrop, the Japanese government launched the “Information Collection and Confirmation Survey on Remote ICU Support during Infectious Disease Outbreaks” in December 2020 to investigate ICU support needs in the coronary disaster and to examine ways in which remote-based technical cooperation under physical constraints regarding movement and contact in the COVID-19 expansion The cooperation is being carried out in the target hospitals in Indonesia. This cooperation will link target hospitals in Indonesia with intensive care physicians and nurses in Japan via a remote ICU communication system to provide training and technical advice on intensive care medicine between doctors and between nurses and between doctors and nurses, etc., and to effectively conduct such training and advice. To contribute to the strengthening of the intensive care field and health system in the target hospitals by temporarily upgrading the medical facilities and equipment in the intensive care units.
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