Minister Of Health Calls Indonesian Aid For Longsor Papua New Guinea Divided 5 Groups, Including Water Clarifiers

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin (two from the right), Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy (two from the left) press conference related to the Papua New Guinea landslide assistance at the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture Office, Jakarta, Monday (1/7/2024). (ANTARA/Lintang Budiyanti Prameswari)

Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that health assistance for landslide victims in Papua New Guinea will be divided into five groups.

"So we at the Ministry of Health will provide five aid groups, the first group has medicine, there are 44 packages, one package can contain thousands to tens of thousands of items, can be tablets, bottles, sachets, or other packages," said the Minister of Health at a press conference at the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, Jakarta, Monday, July 1, confiscated by Antara.

Budi continued, the second group is additional food for pregnant women and toddlers around 200 koli, with a total of around 85 packages per coli.

"The third group is a special medicine for malaria, we give one package for eight thousand people, so there are tablets that must be taken for several days for each person, because there are also endemic areas of malaria the same as in Papua," he said.

While the fourth group, namely special cleaning equipment for children to avoid infection, is 665 packages.

The fifth group is water clarity, because there really needs clean water, we give 10 units, one unit with a capacity of 300 liters of clean water per day that we can send," he said.

The Indonesian government through the coordination of the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture (Kemenko PMK) will distribute humanitarian assistance amounting to Rp17 billion for landslide victims in Papua New Guinea.

"We will provide humanitarian assistance to landslide victims in Papua New Guinea, now the process has started towards rehabilitation, not the emergency stage, then assistance from abroad has also arrived and we will strengthen to provide assistance of around Rp. 17 billion more which we will provide with various types," said Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy.

Muhadjir explained, until now, the landslide victims in Papua New Guinea were recorded at around 670 people, and 1,250 people were displaced, and related to the disaster management process, are currently in the rehabilitation stage.

"It happened on May 28, 2024, it has been going on for almost a month, so this will affect the type of aid we will send," he explained.

He stated that the aid delivery plan will be carried out on July 8, 2024, which will be led directly by the Head of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) Lieutenant General TNI Suharyanto.

"Then the type of assistance, apart from health needs, there are also generators of 5 portable KVA, diesel lights, cooking utensils, blankets, sleeping bags, and others," he said.