Community Health Center Building In Garut Collapses, Deputy Regent Steps Down

Garut Deputy Regent Helmi Budiman together with the Garut District Health Service inspects the condition of the collapsed Mekarmukti Health Center in Mekarmukti District, Garut Regency/Antara

GARUT - Deputy Regent of Garut Helmi Budiman together with the Garut District Health Office directly inspected the condition of the collapsed Mekarmukti Health Center building. This is done to find out whether or not there is human negligence in the implementation of the development.

"Whether there was someone's negligence or what, we'll see," said Helmi Budiman when inspecting the collapsed condition of the Mekarmukti Health Center building, Tuesday, December 21.

He said that his party responded immediately after receiving information that the Mekarmukti Health Center building had collapsed due to a landslide in the area, Friday, December 17.

The incident of the collapsed building, he said, had been crowded on social media and mass media reports made his party want to know firsthand the conditions on the ground, especially the existence of a concrete wall that does not use iron but bamboo.

Helmi said that the collapsed support pole was an additional pole made of bamboo, and was used to strengthen the windows in the Mekarmukti Health Center building.

"If this is matched with the plan, indeed the pillars are, there are only one, two, three, four, yes, now I see that the four pillars have iron, now (besides the 4 poles) there are additional poles," said Helmi.

He emphasized that the cause of the collapse of the Mekarmukti Health Center building must be clearly identified so that the public can know the actual condition.

"Because we will clarify it first, we will clarify the problem," he said.

Helmi conveyed that the Garut Regency Government immediately repaired the condition of the collapsed puskesmas building so that health services returned to normal.

The local government, he said, paid more attention to the collapse of the puskesmas, especially since the place is a health facility that is always used by the community.

"Indeed, this is widely used by the community for treatment, so it must be immediately (improved), I must immediately ask to enter BTT (unexpected costs), hopefully it can be completed so that it can be used immediately," he said.

Regarding the existence of a third party who built the puskesmas and will fix it again, Helmi invited him in good faith to solve the problem.

"I just received a report from the service, there is already good faith (from a third party) to be able to fix it," he said.

Previously, heavy rains flushed the southern region of Garut causing a landslide and causing the back of the Mekarmukti Health Center to collapse. Luckily, the incident did not cause any casualties, only disrupting health services. This was reported by Antara.