Governor Appreciates Additional Health Professionals for Tackling COVID-19 in Jakarta
Reported by Rezki Apriliya Iskandar | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan gave directions via video conference to 1,174 health professionals to tackle COVID-19 in Jakarta area in the pattern room, City Hall, Tuesday (9/8).
May Allah SWT always guide you all in carrying out this noble mandate and may health always be with all of you
He was grateful that Jakarta had received extra support from new health professionals to maintain the safety of Jakartans from the disease until the end of this year.
"You join voluntarily, your own will, your will. You choose to take risks. Offices are lockdown when the COVID-19 case break out in Jakarta in order to reduce the risk of transmission as its risk is always there and the hospital where there are patients being treated for coronavirus. When you choose a professional volunteer, taking care of patients, you choose to be in a perilous battleground. On behalf of the government, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to all my friends," he expressed, as quoted by Jakarta PPID's press release, Tuesday (9/8).
Anies Appreciates DPRD for Approving P2APBD 2019 and Two Raperda ProposalsHe said that they were fighters who were raised with values of care and humanity, because of their services to save the lives of others.
His party underlined that no matter how much rupiah the state gives, it would never be able to match the value of goodness given by health professionals to combat the disease while serving in hospitals, puskesmas and laboratories.
"We all realize that the journey to control the virus is still long. Therefore, must maintain physical stamina, moral stamina, mental stamina and intellectual stamina. Imagine when this virus is over, at that time you will return to your respective places. We will return to normal activities. At that time, you will remember your struggle as an event for humanity of conscious choice, of your voluntary self," he explained.
He then told the story of Tjipto Mangunkusumo who was directly involved in combating the PES outbreak in Malang in 1911. When other people stay away from the plague, he decided to go to face the risk. That was why his name was immortalized into a hospital in Jakarta and was known as one of the national heroes.
"That's what I mentioned earlier why you continue the tradition of warriors and our mothers continue to give birth to warriors. Today's new heroes emerge as we face the plague just as we faced the plague then. May Allah SWT always guide you all in carrying out this noble mandate and may health always be with all of you. InsyaAllah, what you do is always brought closer sincerely and always get the pleasure of Allah," he closed.
