SEMARANG - Semarang City Government (Pemkot) received 50 oxygen concentrators from the Djarum Foundation.The handover of aid was carried out directly by the Program Manager, Djarum Foundation, Purwono Nugroho, to the Mayor of Semarang, Hendrar Prihadi, Monday (18/10) at the Semarang City Hall."Alhamdulillah, the Djarum Foundation has provided a very useful aid for the people of the city of Semarang, namely an oxygen concentrator,"According to Hendi, the need for oxygen concentrators and medicines some time ago when the Covid-19 condition soared was extraordinary.So that with the addition of 50 oxygen concentrators, it is very useful in healing COVID-19 patients.Hendi continued, oxygen concentrators can also be a step and an effort to anticipate the occurrence of the third wave of Covid-19 which is predicted to occur in the fourth quarter."We hope there won't be a second, third and so on. As long as people continue to implement health procedures and carry out vaccines. Learning from that experience, hopefully there won't be another wave. But the Covid-19 isn't over yet, so the anticipation is to prepare an oxygen concentrator, by preparing a place for it. centralized isolation and additional budget for handling COVID-19," he addedMeanwhile, the Program Manager of the Djarum Foundation, Purwono Nugroho said that this activity was part of the Djarum Foundation's program to distribute 1000 oxygen concentrators in the Central Java region."So this is the goal to anticipate a spike in cases, with this tool Covid treatment facilities can have even more advantages because this tool can produce oxygen independently. As we know when there is a spike in cases, oxygen becomes a vital tool, so this tool is very helpful," "said Purwono.According to Purwono, it has become a sense of concern by providing assistance to the community since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.Starting from donating masks and PPE when prices soar, medical devices such as ventilators, high flow nasal cannula, hospital beds and PCR equipment and concentrators."We hope that the pandemic will subside soon, but we continue to anticipate that there will be no more spikes in cases by continuing to help with the needs of medical devices in Central Java," he added.©semarangkota.go.id version 3.0