Given the growing new cases of the H1N1 virus or “swine flu” to be discovered in Bali, Bali Post reported that Dr. Ken Wirasudha has announced that only confirmed cases of H1N1 virus in the life-threatening circumstances are hospitalized in Bali’s Sanglah General Hospital. Other patients who are infected with the virus, but as no more serious threat to appropriate medicines and told to return to their homes and limit contact wit other as much as possible.

The change from a policy of hospitalization to outpatient care reflects a major change in policy after a coordination meeting on H1N1 recently confronted on the island of Batam.

With the disease now declared an “epidemic” by the World Health Organization, Indonesian medical providers are forced to practice with the international reserves, a limited number of available hospital beds for those who have an acute attack of H1N1, or for those who have life-threatening complications of the disease.