Can't Get Permission To Use Ambulance From Head Of Kalumpang Health Center, Family Stretcher Body 13 Km

Not an ambulance model at the Mamuju Health Center, this is just an illustration (Photo by Egor Ivlev on Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The Health Office of West Sulawesi (Sulbar) regrets the service of the Kalumpang Sub-district Health Center, Mamuju which did not deliver the patient's body by ambulance.

"It is very regrettable and unfortunate that the Kalumpang District Health Center did not deliver the patient's body to his family for burial using an ambulance," said Head of West Sulawesi Health Office, Dr Asran Masdy in Mamuju, Friday night, August 13, as reported by Antara.

He said that because the body was not delivered, the family had to walk 13 kilometers on a stretcher to Kondobulo Village, Kalumpang District.

The reason is that the Puskesmas must first obtain permission from the Head of the Kalumpang Health Center who is currently in Mamuju City. For the Department of Health, it is negligence in providing services.

"This incident can no longer be allowed to repeat itself, because under any circumstances the body should be delivered to the family for burial, this is very regrettable," he said.

"Call the head of the Kalumpang District Health Center, give a warning so that in the future there will be no more incidents of corpses not being delivered using ambulance vehicles," he said angrily.

Meanwhile, the Regent of Mamuju also deeply regrets that the Kalumpang District Health Center did not have the initiative to deliver the bodies for burial and hoped that this incident would not happen again.

He said the government in Mamuju will immediately evaluate the performance of the Kalumpang Health Center in providing services to the community.

He conveyed that the ambulance vehicle should be used to transport the bodies because that is its function and all puskesmas in Mamuju have been asked to deliver the bodies according to their duties.

He also said that the government in Mamuju apologized to the community for the bodies that were not delivered by the ambulance and really hoped for input from the community to improve health services in Mamuju.