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JAKARTA, Indonesia, June 22, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

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