Sukabumi, Jabar – The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has stationed numerous workers at various places affected by the eruption of Mount Merapi to assist city governments in disaster mitigation efforts.
” The PMI in Central Java has presently readied 300 volunteers with various special abilities, such as first aid, evacuation, medical help, public cooking areas, and psychosocial support,” PMI Central Java’s Head of Catastrophe Mitigation (PB) Sarwa Pramana stated telephonically on Sunday.
In addition to personnel, the PMI provides numerous devices positioned at the last evacuation sites (TEA), such as portable handwashing tools, body temperature level checks, water tanks, and vehicles in Magelang.
When gotten in touch with individually, Head of PMI Central Java Mu’ rifah mentioned that PMI Central Java had collaborated with three regional PMI workplaces in Magelang, Klaten and Boyolali districts respectively as a preventive step against all possibilities.
The PMI has likewise prepared disaster logistics, including 1,500 bundles of family packages, 1,500 blankets, 1,500 sheets of tarpaulin, 1,500 sheets of bed mattress, and 50 thousand face masks, as well as a clean water tank trucks and electric vehicles for storage facility storage requirements.
” The logistics we have prepared are planned to be preventive measures on the field during a disaster emergency situation action, such as three thousand personal protective clothing and three thousand face shields,” he noted.
The National Disaster Mitigation Company (BPBN) had reported recently that a minimum of 1,475 individuals residing on the slopes of Mount Merapi, situated in the border of Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces, were evacuated to safer areas.
In 2010, Mount Merapi had actually emerged and eliminated some 300 individuals.
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