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September 07, 2009

Ministry of Health Has Sent Additional Medical Supplies for Earthquake Victims

Ministry of Health has sent 25 tons of additional medical supplies on Sunday for victims of an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 Help in West Java.

"We will send medical supplies today, five districts in West Java, which has been hardest hit by the earthquake. Each of these five tons are transported by road", chairman of crisis-management center (PPK) of the host Ministry of Health Dr Rustam S Pakaya said here Sunday.

Five areas to receive medical care, Cianjur, Bandung, Garut, Tasikmalaya and Ciamis.

The team from the province's health service, together with the Ministry of Health official already in a position to assist local residents and coordination with all volunteers.

In the context of communal bathing, cleaning and toilet in the tents of refugees, Rustam, he said that he had contacted West Java's Head of Health, the main province's Department of Public Works and the Chief Social Welfare Office.

Rustam also said that the monitoring system and the psychosocial team to help earthquake victims. Tents refugees, he added, are sprayed with disinfectant.

"In the coldest nights and mosquitoes in the refugee camps, the health of the victims of the earthquake may be in danger. We hope that the disinfectant to prevent mosquito bites and sick," he said.

The earthquake death toll has reached at 74 hospital, while another 104 have already left the hospital, he said.

The quake at 7.3 on the Richter scale was in the south-west Indian Ocean, 142, Tasikmalaya, 190 kilometers from Jakarta.

The earthquake was felt in Yogyakarta, Central Java, as well as in the capital, Jakarta. The earthquake, which occurred about 30 seconds of panic among residents.

Head of volcanology and geological hazards of the Center, Dr. Surono said the earthquake was the result of subduction and collision between the Austro-Asia plate Euronesia 30 kilometers into the sea.

Having "The earthquake also caused a collision of plates in the Pacific, but not recorded on other boards in Java. Dozens of aftershocks, but not too strong or five on the Richter scale," said Surono.

He said that the earthquake did not affect the activity of volcanoes in West Java, as Galunggung, Guntru, Papandayan, including Tangkubanperahu.

"In contrast to the volcanic island of Sumatra, West Java, were not affected, although the earthquake. But to return to his office in the intensive care unit," he said.

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