Diarrhea To Attack Skin Diseases Of Sumatra Residents, Prabowo Deploys Internship Doctors To Handle Flood Victims
JAKARTA - Post-flood diseases in Sumatra, namely diarrhea, Acute Respiratory Channel Infection (ARI), and skin disease began to attack victims. To overcome this, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto ordered the Ministry of Health to deploy an internship (tax) doctor.
"How many of our internationalities can we do? 74? Can it be, right? I think it can be a university, it can be deployed as well," said the Head of State during a dialogue with Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin during a meeting in Aceh, Sunday (7/12) night.
The President's order to bring in an intern was motivated by the shortage of medical personnel on the island of Sumatra, because doctors in the local area were also victims of flooding.
Responding to the directive, Minister of Health Budi asked the Minister of Defense (Menhan) Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, who was also present at the meeting, to help deploy around 300 doctors from the TNI and Polri for three months to accompany an intern doctor.
The plan, said Budi, is that doctors from the Ministry of Defense will provide assistance to interns at every puskesmas facility in areas affected by natural disasters.
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"So I also ask the Minister of Defense if I may need about 300 doctors for the next three months to fill them up until they are finished. I will handle some of them, but if I may, the TNI-Polri will be easier to mobilize," he said as quoted by ANTARA.
Defense Minister Sjafrie said that his party had prepared emergency response needs outside of the defense equipment provided to deal with flood disasters in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.
"We have prepared three independent helicopters, consisting of one squad that we received, the two helicopters we rented. This is intended to be a car health team in each province," he said.
According to the Minister of Defense, the health team is independent, so it is not burdened with logistics distribution, but specifically to travel to the refugee camps to carry out health checks for disaster survivors.