SOUTH TANGERANG — During the emergency response phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dompet Dhuafa has rolled out numerous aids for the affected communities. One of the primary focus areas has been healthcare, including the provision of free oxygen services for needy residents. Dompet Dhuafa has introduced oxygen refilling centers as part of this initiative.
As a strategic action through the Free Healthcare Service (LKC), Dompet Dhuafa partnered with kitabisa.com. This collaboration resulted in the establishment of an Oxygen Refilling Center located at the LKC Office, Jl. Ir. H Juanda, East Ciputat, South Tangerang. Initially, this service was centered at the Covid-19 Crisis Center in East Ciputat, South Tangerang. With the decrease in Covid-19 cases and the government’s revocation of the Covid-19 pandemic status, the Oxygen Refilling Center moved to the LKC Office.
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Currently, the refilling center has 25 oxygen cylinders with a capacity of 6 cubic meters each, and there are 5 more cylinders placed in Dompet Dhuafa’s hospitals. This service is still ongoing, facilitating the needs of underprivileged citizens. Typically, patients’ families come to refill their one-cubic-meter oxygen cylinders. LKC gladly refills these cylinders free of charge.
Additionally, there are sometimes requests from patients’ families to deliver oxygen directly to their homes. In such cases, the oxygen cylinders are transported to the patients’ homes using ambulances.
One of the ambulance drivers often involved in delivering oxygen cylinders is Achmad Fachrurrozi Bayhaqi (21). When met on Thursday (4/1/2024) at the LKC office, he shared that he has been performing this duty for 2 years, even before the Mount Semeru eruption in East Java.
“I often worked late at night during the Covid-19 recovery period. Every day, we had to be on standby for the ambulance,” recalled the man from Gunung Sindur.
“There was a time during the Covid-19 recovery period when I was on the road, the distance was far, and there was a traffic jam.. The patient had a high oxygen requirement. Just in time, when we arrived at the hospital, the oxygen ran out and was immediately replaced by the hospital’s oxygen,” he recounted, recalling an experience of transporting a heart disease patient from Tangerang to Harapan Kita Hospital in South Jakarta.
As an ambulance driver, he ensures that there are always two fully filled oxygen cylinders in the vehicle, one with a regulator attached and another as a backup. He is also trained to understand and perform first aid actions when needed. This training has been provided by the LKC Dompet Dhuafa medical team.
Dodi Darmayanto, the Logistics Officer at LKC, oversees the oxygen refilling center. He mentioned that LKC prepares 4 ambulance units every day, meaning 8 cylinders must always be fully filled.
“There was a time when I delivered an oxygen cylinder to Cinere, Depok. The patient was on the 3rd floor, needing a 6-cubic-meter cylinder. So, we had to carry the cylinder up to the 3rd floor. The patient’s requirement was very high; even a 6-cubic-meter cylinder would run out in one day and had to be replaced the next day,” he shared. (Dompet Dhuafa/Muthohar)