Stark photos highlight plight of Indonesia's vulnerable doctors

JAKARTA - Photographs of a grieving wife bent over the coffin of her dead husband, an Indonesian medical doctor, have drawn attention to the high death toll of healthcare workers in the Southeast Asian nation. The photographs, taken at Wahidin Sudirohusodo hospital in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on Thursday morning, and shared with Reuters by Indonesia’s Medical Association (IDI), have been widely shared on social media. They show a woman, whose face is barely visible, dressed in a pink hazmat suit, gloves, and turquoise mask, alone as she rests her head on a white coffin. The Indonesian medical association said the woman’s husband, Dr Titus Taba, who was head of the IDI in West Papua, was the 94th Indonesian doctor to die from Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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