We ensure that health services from Potowayburu to Jita sub-districts continue to run normally. We do not receive any report on grievances from the local people
Timika, Papua – Public health services in the remote mountainous and seaside locations of Mimika District, Papua Province, remain untouched by the continuous unique coronavirus illness (COVID-19) pandemic, Head of the Mimika Health Office Reynold Ubra affirmed.
” We ensure that health services from Potowayburu to Jita sub-districts continue to run normally. We do not receive any report on grievances from the local people,” he informed local reporters in Timika, the capital of Mimika District, on Saturday.
In warding off the potential spread of COVID-19 in the district’s administrative areas, the health authorities have actually laid out health procedures on the basis of a mapping of green, yellow, and red risk zones of COVID-19, Ubra kept in mind.
Next week, the Mimika Health Office has actually prepared to release a group of medical professionals and paramedics to serve individuals in seaside villages, consisting of Yapakopa, Aindua, and Ararau, in Mimika Barat Jauh Sub-district.
Their public health services focus on the handling of leprosy, and their colleagues released to the locations of Amar Sub-district will help take care of moms and children in addition to those struggling with malnourishment, he specified.
The medical employees dispatched to Sumapro Town in Jita Sub-district will provide important health services, consisting of immunization, to the regional residents.
Over the previous years, Mimika District has actually been aiming to deal with illness, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. The COVID-19 pandemic has actually even more raised public health-related difficulties, he specified.
As of Sept 11, some 957 individuals had contracted COVID-19, of which 758 totally recuperated, while seven others succumbed to the deadly virus that causes COVID-19
5 neighborhoods in Mimika are still classified as red zones or high-risk locations for the infection: Tembagapura community in Tembagapura Sub-district, Amamapare Village in Mimika Timur Jauh Sub-district, Kwamki neighborhood in Mimika Baru Sub-district, Wonosari Jaya neighborhood in Wania Sub-district, and Kuala Kencana area in Kuala Kencana Sub-district, he specified.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to position a serious hazard to Papua. The General Elections Commission (KPU) authority in Papua Province revealed just recently that one of its members had contracted the novel coronavirus illness and was under hospitalization at a local center.
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