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Aceh Provincial Government
stated that there was a shortage of medical personnel at evacuation sites for flash floods and landslides.
Moreover, the sporadic disasters at the end of November began to have health impacts on refugees in the affected areas.
These health problems include diseases such as fever, flu, skin diseases, and acute respiratory infections (ARI).
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For this reason, the Aceh Government asked the Indonesian Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) to deploy Health Reserve Personnel (TCK) to strengthen the emergency response in areas affected by the hydrometeorological disaster in Aceh.
Aceh Disaster Emergency Response Spokesperson, Murthalamuddin said that the HEOC (Health Emergency Operation Center) or Provincial Health Cluster had been activated as a health crisis management center.
“HEOC is already active and all initial information is handled through Rapid Health Assessment (RHA). However, conditions in the field require additional health personnel. Therefore, we ask for support from the Ministry of Health to deploy TCKs to affected areas,” said Murthalamuddin, Sunday (7/12).
TCKs are special health workers who are mobilized in emergency health crisis situations, such as natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides), non-natural disasters (pandemics, outbreaks of infectious diseases), as well as social emergencies that have a wide impact.
They are tasked with providing minimal health services when local health facilities are overwhelmed or regular resources are inadequate.Therefore, Murthalamuddin, said that his party hopes for additional health workers from the central government.
“We hope that additional health workers from the center can strengthen services in the regions, especially for medical evacuation, services at refugee posts, as well as handling risky diseases during the emergency response period,” added Murthala.
By activating HEOC and intensive coordination with the central government, his party emphasizes its commitment to accelerate crisis management efforts and ensure that affected communities receive adequate health services.
Meanwhile, based on updated data from the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) as of Sunday at 16.13 WIB, the number of flood and landslide victims in three provinces of Sumatra – Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra – continues to increase.
Currently, a total of 940 people have died as a result of the ecological disaster that occurred in the three provinces of Sumatra.
Reporting from the page gis.bnpb.go.id, the highest number of victims died was in Aceh with 382 people.Then North Sumatra (330) and West Sumatra (228).
Apart from the fatalities, there are 276 people who are still declared missing and 5,000 people injured in the three provinces.
BNPB data also recorded that 655 public facilities were damaged, 72 health facilities were damaged, 383 educational facilities were damaged, 200 places of worship were damaged, 29 buildings or offices were damaged, and 64 bridges were damaged.
In the midst of many fatalities and quite a lot of material losses, the Indonesian government has not declared national disaster status.
(dra/kid)
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