Various measures, according to Minister of Health, has done Kemenkes an effort to reduce the risk of outbreak, which started with spraying disinfectant in the refugee camps.
Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) Kemenkes, Tjandra Yoga Aditama said, spraying disinfectants have been carried out in cooperation Kemenkes with the local Health Department to control the population of flies and mosquitoes.
In addition, Tjandra said that malaria prophylaxis was given to 231 volunteers working in the area. "Anti-malarial drugs are also increasingly available and every team that went to remote areas and mosquito nets supplied OAM. Stock netting is available from the center and there are plans for help from UNICEF," he said.
Kemenkes P2PL Directorate has also sent to the Mentawai drugs in anticipation of malaria. For environmental sanitation, Kemenkes also been talking with the local Public Works Department and will be acted upon immediately.
Meanwhile, to catastrophic eruption of Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta, Minister of Health expressed anticipation among others done to prevent outbreaks of respiratory disease as a result of continuous rain of ash occurred.
"Merapi has been handled well by the medical team in Yogyakarta and Central Java. The watch was respiratory infection, can irritate the throat and lungs as well, eyes and skin," said Minister of Health.
Kemenkes has distributed at least 50 thousand masks to the public so as not to inhale dust eruption of Mount Merapi, despite the Minister of Health recommends that people remain at home until the eruption ends. "If you do not need to be true, do not have to leave the house, even if have to leave the house, use a mask,
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