| Yogjakarta Earthquake Report - June 17, 2006 |
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OVERVIEW
6.3 SR earthquake hit Yogyakarta and Central Java. Up until now 5,743 people dead, 10,975 people serious injured, 27,541 slightly injured, 126,932 houses destroyed, 183,399 heavily damaged and 259,816 slightly damaged. Populations in Bantul are 800,569 people with casualties of 4,141 people dead, serious injured 8,673, and slightly injured 3,353 people. In construction 71,683 houses destroyed, 70,796 heavily damaged and 66,512 slightly damaged. With 72 % people dead and 56 % total houses destroyed, that makes the Bantul District the worst area that had been hit by the earthquake. On May 27th and 28th 2006 with initiative the emergency response team had evacuated more than 109 people. Over 100 volunteers from many disciplines has joined even until now. We deployed the team one hour after the earthquake. On May 28th, 2006 IBU4ACEH advance team arrive in Yogyakarta and Bantul to identify and organize to run mobile clinic in Bantul. After meet with Help from Germany and Rakata Adventure (The emergency response team), we are agree to collaborate in one team and established a base camp in SD Kanisius, Dusun Kanutan, Desa Sumbermulyo, Kecamatan Bambanglipuro, Bantul District. Help from Germany has committed to be the funding agency for earthquake relief effort, IBU4JOGJA (IBU4ACEH) as the implement agency with RAKATA as a partner in distribution and camp management. Up until June 15th, 2006 we have given health service to 5,120 people. Total numbers of patients treated are 2,574 people, we are also conducting the immunization to 2,546 people together with Puskesmas for TT and measles. In Psychosocial programs, we are still supporting children and teacher in school. For logistics distributions, we have distributed food and non food items to 23 sub-districts in Yogyakarta and Central Java province.
PROGRESS ACTIVITY
Assessment We still do the assessment based on the needs of the programs. We are also gathering data and information from UN OCHA, Satkorlak, Satlak Bantul, other agencies and colleagues. Health Program Base camp clinic The clinic located in SD Kanisius. The purpose of the clinic is to serve people in surrounded area. Two doctors are responsible for the clinic with 789 patients treated so far. Mobile clinic The areas for mobile clinics are in Bambanglipuro, Imogiri and Dlingo sub‐district. But, we also run the mobile clinics in other villages of sub‐district. Total numbers of patients are 1,675. We have 3 teams for mobile with 5 doctors. Health post In this week we are concentrated in immunization for tetanus and measles in the daylight. At night, we treated 33 patients. Puskesmas and Pustu Supporting This week we can not run this programs due to the immunization for TT and Measles. Psychosocial Program Play and Learn We still doing assessment in some area to identified the needs of the service. The areas are Pajangan sub‐district, Dlingo sub‐district, Bambanglipuro sub‐district and Sewon sub‐district. We gave counseling through activities such as singing, dancing, playing games, writing and reading. School Supporting We are also supporting 5 kindergartens, 1 elementary school and 2 Qur’an education center by giving books, pens and toys. For the teacher we gave counseling to cope for their trauma and how to deal with the children in post earthquake disaster. Logistics and Distribution Program This week, we distributed food items such as rice, mineral water, milks, coconut oil and non food items such as: tents for school and pregnant women, and construction gears.
CONSTRAINTS
We have difficulties in procuring medicines. The stock of medicines in Yogyakarta, Semarang and Solo are hunted by many NGOs and others. The logistics to distribute to IDP are running low due to the high demand but hard to get for re‐stock. RECOMMENDATIONS
We will ask other NGOs, UN agencies, organizations and private donors for medicines, food and non-food items.
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