Ministry Of Health Arranges Placement Of Internship Doctors To Serve Aceh Flood Victims

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) is regulating the placement of interns to provide health services for flood victims in Aceh.

Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that currently his party is focusing on placing intern doctors in Aceh Province first because the area is most affected. Around 300 health centers were damaged and 50 of them were still inaccessible due to disasters.

"The Ministry of Health regulates the placement of doctors who have finished schooling. We will put them there (Aceh), indeed the problem is not all (open access), there are still three cities that just opened yesterday, in Gayo Luwes, Bener Meriah, and Central Aceh. Takengon has not yet been connected to land roads, so it is a bit difficult," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, December 8.

He hopes that areas that are still isolated and difficult to access in the near future can immediately be connected so that doctors, medicines, and health services can enter.

"The needs of these doctors, especially in health centers that are close to evacuation centers, are sure to exist. Actually, not only doctors, but medical devices as well as medicines because based on reports from the Ministry of Defense, many skin diseases, diarrhea and acute respiratory tract infections (ispa)," he said.

Later, he said, 300 interns would be distributed to disaster-affected places in Aceh.

The doctors will tour to serve people who need medical assistance, especially at evacuation posts.

Currently, the Ministry of Health is focused on reviving hospitals in Aceh affected by the disaster.

Starting this week, the Ministry of Health is collaborating with various parties to also focus on fixing the health centers affected by the disaster.

"We will start the hospital first, there are 18 (units). The problem is still in Aceh, if in West Sumatra it is the same in North Sumatra, all hospitals have been operating. Now, this hospital is what specialist doctors need because many have to enter the hospital once the road is open," he said.

Until now, there are still six hospitals in Aceh that have not been fully operational, while others have been running normally.

"But those who are still very left behind are in Aceh Tamiang. Well, it is hoped that starting tomorrow the emergency emergency installation (IGD) will have moved because we prioritize the ER first, so treatment can catch up, then the operating room, then those who wash their blood, because dialysis if it's too late can be dangerous," he said.