The Indonesian government reaffirmed here Wednesday that the
Taiwanese patient who died last week at the Sulianti Suroso
Hospital in Jakarta was not killed by the Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS).
"Based on the result of the examination of the Pathology and
Anatomy, we exclude the patient from SARS," said Syafei Achmad,
secretary general of preventing infecting disease in the Ministry
of Health and Social Welfare in a press briefing here.
After the patient's death, many people suspected that he died of
SARS, which he had possibly contracted before he was
hospitalized.
It
was reported earlier that the 56-year-old businessman was killed by
multiple organ failure.
According to doctor Emil Taupik from the Pathology and Anatomy unit
of the University of Indonesia (UI), the examination was carried
out on the several organs, including heart, liver and lung, because
of the limit of time.
(Xinhua News Agency April 30, 2003)