84 Health Posts Prepared as Flood Anticipation
Reported by Andry | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
Jakarta Health Department is about to set up 48 health posts with 55 medical personnel to anticipate flooding in the capital. The post is situational or follows the conditions and needs of refugees in the field.
We prepare 48 health posts with 550 medical personnel. The medical personnel consist of nurses, doctors, pharmacy staffs, and ambulance drivers
"We prepare 48 health posts with 550 medical personnel. The medical personnel consist of nurses, doctors, pharmacy staffs, and ambulance drivers," expressed Head of Jakarta Health Department, Dien Emmawati, Tuesday (12/2).
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Emmawati disclosed, post and medical personnel will be sent to refugee camps if it is much needed.
"Our post is different with the Social Department posts. If there is a flooded area, we will immediately set up a post near the refugee camp. If the refugee camp is large, we keep in there 24 hours," she stressed.
From experience in the last year, she cited, her department set up health posts and sent medical personnel for 24 hours in the flooded areas, Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta.
"That's because the number of refugee is much. If it is not much and water level only reaches adult waist, we remain set up the post until at 6 PM. That means our health post is situational," she said.
If the floods recede, the flood victims in refugee camps asked to go to the community health center (puskesmas) for treatment. She continued, for those who cannot be treated at puskesmas, they will be referred to a referral hospital for free.
"We have 81 referral hospitals that consist of central government, general, and private hospitals," she told.
According to Emmawati, trend diseases during floods are diarrhea, cough, running nose, itchy, dengue fever (DBD). Even, if the floods last long, the rat urine disease will be a threat for victims.
"Therefore, people are warned to hold on the clean and healthy lifestyle, turn off the electricity and consume clean water or drink bottled water," she explained.
To anticipate rat urine disease, people are asked to wear boots that can protect the skin. "After the flood subsided, we also remind them to immediately clean up the home with carbolic acid cleanser, especially the floors and walls, as well as clear up the well," she reminded.
