Liberate diarrhea wabah in South Coast

The tangis fights from the child's room. A number of mothers embraced his child to be calmer because the toddlers experienced fever and abdominal pain. Infusion needles seem to be stamped in the hands of the children with a layered bandage so that it is not removed and does not hurt.

At that time, Tuesday 7 May 2024), the ward of the Regional General Hospital (RSUD) Dr. Muhammad Zein Painan, South Coastal District, West Sumatra, the condition is full of patients diarrhea. Due to the limitation of the room, the patients dominated by children and toddlers are forced to be treated in the area of the nation’s ward using a folding mattress (velbed) the help of BNPB. Other patients occupy the room of children’s playground that is converted to the treatment room.

The government of the South Coaster Regency set an exceptional event (KLB) the diarrhea wabah that has claimed five toddlers. The case actually began since 18 April 2024 or postbanjir bandang with 255 cases of diarrhea. A significant increase in 1 May to 5 May, namely 20 average cases per day.

People take water to drink in the Angik Pincuran spring source.

The people contemplate after the grandchild named Zea Arsila was eight months died by diarrhea in Nagari Rawang.

The hospital is most receiving the referral patients from the Surantih Puskesmas, Sutera District, but there is also reported to come from other sub-districts such as IV Jurai, Bayang, Cotton Rod and Lengayang. Elong the day, the patient continues to be handy using ambulance in the hospital. Most forced to be switched to the public hospital of BKM in Painan due to the limitations of the room. The Southern Coasters turned out not only because of the flooding of the bandang on March then that contemplates many lives, but continue to the diarrhea.

After the assignment as KLB, local governments conduct examinations against food and beverages, especially drinking water consumed daily residents. Then the puskesmas-puskesmas is represented for the management including by providing education to society as well as school children about diarrhea prevention.

Most do not know that drinking water they consume through the refilled gallon depot is not processed or sterile. Many depots of drinking water in the area are illegal. In addition, the source of the Angik Pincuran water that is usually the place of residents taking drinking water is allegedly containing bacteria so it should be cooked properly before taking.

Pasien diarrhea digendong family to be referred to as RSUD Painan in Puskesmas Surantih.

The son of diarrhea suffered by his mother due to the fever in the ward of the child, RSUD Dr. Muhammad Zein Painan.

Based on the data of the South Coastal Health Office, at the beginning of the water sample test of the spring source suggests the contamination index of E Coli bacteria as much as 6.300 per 250 milliliters of water. It is thought to be the cause of an exceptional occurrence (KLB) diarrhea because it is not processed (cooked) first. The postbanjir bandang condition strengthens the alleged diarrhea cause due to dirt-polluted drinking water, animal dresses and others.

People finally choose to buy mineral water packaging, or cooking the refillable gallon water they bought until boiling, then cooled. The arrival of cooking water becomes the choice for people who are cooking lazy. One of the depots of drinking water turns out to provide a refilled water that is cooked and sold at Rp5,000 per gallon the same price with a regular rechargeable water. 

In addition to the examination of drinking water, the Puskesmas Surantih is asked to do verbal autopsy against the victims died, through the interview of kronological and the cause of diarrhea. According to the doctor, the baby who does not get the milk water of the mother (ASI) makes the victims experiencing severe dehydration due to diarrhea so that his life is not to help. Therefore, village midwifes are also required to monitor the condition of toddlers in each village so that still affected diarrhea is immediately retracted.

A number of infusion fluids already named diarrhea patients prepared in the child’s ward, RSUD Dr. Muhammad Zein Painan.

The number of diarrhea patients are treated with additional folding mattresses in the child’s ward market, RSUD Dr. Muhammad Zein Painan

Photo and Text by Iggoy el Fitra

Author : Nyoman Budhiana

Dokter examined toddlers that were diarrhea in the child’s ward, RSUD Dr. Muhammad Zein Painan

Healthy gas from puskesmas gave an educational prevention of diarrhea to citizens in Surantih Market.

The health poultry of the puskesmas provides educational prevention of diarrhea to citizens in Surantih Market.

The arrival of cooking water in the depot of drinking water on Jalan Sirah Surantih River.

Pasien diarrhea was given drinking mineral water by his parents in the child's ward, RSUD Dr. Muhammad Zein Painan

The toddlers who experienced diarrhea treated in the emergency place of children's playground in the child's ward, RSUD Dr. Muhammad Zein Painan.

Exhaustible in windows in the child's ward, RSUD Dr. Muhammad Zein Painan

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