Country for PR: Hong Kong
Contributor: PR Newswire Asia (Hong Kong)
Tuesday, June 23 2020 - 18:17
AsiaNet
Docquity Works with the Indonesian Ministry of Health in Recruiting over 800 Doctors across Indonesia to Combat COVID-19
JAKARTA, Indonesia, June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

The need for medical personnel at hospitals all across Indonesia increased 
rapidly ever since COVID-19 hit Indonesia in March. Docquity -- S.E Asia's 
largest professional network of doctors, stepped up to this challenge and in 
partnership with the Ministry of health (MOH) in Indonesia by helping 
recruitment and training volunteer medical professionals through its extensive 
series of courses, lectures, webinars and demonstrations done by senior medical 
experts. 

On 19th March, the health ministry partnered with Docquity and inducted 
Docquity into the Indonesian Telemedical Alliance (Atensi). Working along with 
MOH and IDI (Ikatan Dokter Indonesia), Docquity has been working with COVID-19 
hospitals, to help register and recruit general practioners & specialists from 
various provinces all across Indonesia to fight the pandemic. Over 800 doctors 
have registered through Docquity and many of them are currently assigned to the 
Kemayoran makeshift COVID-19 hospital in Jakarta. 

The chairman of PP Perdatin -- Association of Indonesian Anaesthesia & 
Intensive therapy Doctors, is one of the trainers & senior lecturers conducting 
the education & development on the Docquity platform, said "One of the core 
aspects of the training is to focus on the managing & preventing the worsening 
of the conditions, especially when the patient is critical. This is important 
as the doctors will be seeing patients who are already in advanced stages of 
fallout because of COVID-19". 

"The co-operation and the support from MOH and PBIDI has been very impactful to 
ensure development of capability to manage & support COVID-19 patients. We are 
holding digital training and practical learning sessions with medical 
professionals almost 2-3 times every day, so that the volunteering medical 
professionals can get trained and get updated every single day along with 
senior doctors updating the community on development of COVID-19 cases" said 
Amit Vithal -- Co-Founder of Docquity.

Established in 2015, Docquity is S.E Asia's largest professional network of 
doctors with over 200,000 doctors on its platform across Indonesia, Malaysia, 
the Philippines, Thailand & Vietnam. In Indonesia alone, Docquity has over 
85,000 doctors who are active users of the Docquity platform. In partnership 
with the MOH, Docquity has done over 30 such specific programs with the 
healthcare professionals and that has included doctors, nurses and medical 
students, all of whom are fighting COVID-19 from the front lines. 

"The COVID-19 pandemic is an extraordinary situation & has highlighted the need 
of continual education of doctors. Doctors are our heroes and Docquity 
leveraging the strength of its network of doctors, will continue to innovate to 
help our heroes fighting the virus in Indonesia and the entire S.E Asian 
region. " -- said Amit. 

About Docquity

Docquity was established in 2015 to expand cooperation and knowledge exchange 
in the healthcare industry. Working exclusively with Medical Institutions and 
National Medical Associations, Docquity's doctors-only network enables doctors 
to consult and collaborate with each other while providing Continuing Medical 
Education & medical conferences directly to doctors' mobiles.

To date, Docquity has over 190,000 verified doctors in 5 countries within S.E 
Asia and is the largest professional network of doctors in S.E Asia. Docquity 
is backed by investment from both. Corporate investors such as Itochu Corp 
Japan and financial VCs including Singapore Press Holdings, Genesia Ventures 
Japan , Spiral Ventures Japan & Purvi Capital from the United States. 
Headquartered in Singapore, Docquity has a 127 member team based in Singapore, 
India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.

Website: https://docquity.com/#/

SOURCE:  DOCQUITY