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Sender: Sjamsir Sjarif ([email protected])
Comment from Sjamsir Sjarif:
FYI
Source: World Health Organization
Date: 20 Nov 2009
Health services for thousands of Indonesians require urgent support in the
wake of the 30 September earthquakes that
struck West Sumatra Province. World Health
Organization Director-General Dr Margaret
Chan on 19 November visited health
facilities devastated by the earthquake,
assessing first-hand health needs and
efforts to restore life-saving health care
services.
The two earthquakes measured 7.6 and 6.2
magnitude, with the coastal city of Padang
- home to 900 000 people - most affected.
Over 1100 people were killed, around 3500
injured and more than 360 health
facilities damaged or destroyed. 1.2
million people live in the three worst
affected districts of West Sumatra.
"It is really sad to see that health
centres and hospitals collapse in times of
natural disasters, a time when they are
most needed to provide services to people
who are injured and people that have
suffered," Dr Chan said during her visit,
which included a tour of the Mohammed
Djamil Hospital, the main health facility
in Padang, which was severely damaged by
the earthquakes.
Since the earthquake hit, WHO and Health
Cluster partners have been working closely
with Indonesian authorities, sending
trained health staff and medicines to help
minimize public health threats, succeeding
in preventing any disease epidemics and
kick-starting restoration of destroyed
health services, particularly primary
health care.
"It is reassuring for me to see the very
prompt response done by the government of
Indonesia at the three levels of
government - the district, the province
and the central level," Dr Chan said.
"Their response was very prompt and was
supported by many development partners,
including UN agencies and many countries
who came from afar to provide support in
solidarity."
WHO's South-East Asian regional office
provided funds for mobile clinics and
restarting health services, while the
Norwegian government's support resulted in
surgical equipment being provided to treat
people with injuries and water treatment
plants for use in health facilities.
The urgent need today is to ensure
hospitals, clinics and other affected
health services are fully restored to the
level they were before the earthquakes,
with a focus on making health facilities
more resilient and able to withstand
possible future emergencies.
"We are already talking about plans for
the reconstruction and retrofitting of
essential health facilities. I would like
to say once more that it is important for
us to pay attention to build strong,
robust health facilities," Dr Chan said.
"They are important to provide good
healthcare to the community, especially in
times of crisis. I would like to again
appeal to partners, governments that this
kind of investment in health facilities
will pay good dividends on your
investment. The people will thank you for
what you have done to protect their
health."
WHO's World Health Day campaign for 2009
is "Save lives. Make hospitals safe in
emergencies," with the aim to highlight
the critical need to ensure hospitals,
clinics and other health facilities can
withstand natural disasters, including
earthquakes, and provide life-saving
services in their wake.
The UN Central Emergency Response Fund
this week provided funding to WHO for a
project to strengthen the health sector in
the wake of the earthquake. This will help
assess the safety of health facilities,
deliver medical supplies, ensure
specialized care for 800 people who
sustained major injuries and require
rehabilitation, strengthen disease
control, improve health services for
mothers and children, and deliver mental
and psychosocial health support.
For more information, please contact:
Paul Garwood, Communication Officer
[email protected]
+41 79 475 55 46
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