Rocked By The M 7.1 Earthquake, The Mataram Hospital Prepared An Inpatient Room To Anticipate Susulant Victims

Illustration of earthquakes. (Unsplash)

NTB - The Mataram City Regional General Hospital (RSUD) immediately changed the pattern of filling the patient's inpatient room in anticipation of aftershocks so that evacuations were easier to carry out.

The President Director of the Mataram City Hospital, Eka Nurhayati, said that so far the filling of inpatients at the Graha Mentaram building was carried out randomly from the second to fifth floors.

"Now we have asked the officers to have inpatients at the 'Graha Mentaram' to be filled gradually and not to be random. So the second floor must be full first, then the third floor will be filled, as soon as possible," he said in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Tuesday, August 29, confiscated by Antara.

This was conveyed in response to an earthquake measuring magnitude (M) 7.1 about 163 kilometers northeast of North Lombok, on Tuesday, August 29 at around 02.55 WIB. The earthquake in the sea had no potential for a tsunami.

Based on a report by the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the epicenter of the M 7.1 earthquake was at coordinates 6.94 degrees south latitude and 116.57 degrees east longitude. While the earthquake hypocenter was at a depth of 525 kilometers.

Eka admitted that due to the earthquake a number of inpatients including those in the ER came out to the front yard of the Mataram City Hospital Building to save themselves until conditions were safe.

"As soon as the call for dawn and conditions began to be safe, the patients had returned to their respective treatment rooms. Meanwhile, for the impact of physical damage, so far there has been no", he said.

While alluding to morning services in post-earthquake polyclinics, Eka said, so far the level of service visits to polyclinics has been running normally as usual.

"Alhamdulillah, visits remain normal but we have not calculated the exact number. But the average is around 900 to 1,000 visits per day," he said.