REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR -- Bali Health Department head Nyoman Gede Anom ensures health teams at health centers and hospitals are on standby 24 hours during polling day, especially providing services to 2024 election officials who will be working from the morning. “Health teams both in health centers and in hospitals are ready 24 hours,” he said in Denpasar on Tuesday (13/2/2024).

He said that on election day, all health centers in the area remained open for services to the community.

“For election day, all health centers in Bali remain open to serve the community, and ambulances are ready to move to polling stations in case of an emergency, as well as hospitals across Bali are asked to improve their preparedness,” he said.

In addition to alerting the team for a full day, Dinkes Bali makes an anticipation effort with health detection to all officers from KPU and Bawaslu, with the screening process taking place in their respective work areas. On February 2 and 9, joint gymnastics was also held between health workers and election officials at each health center.

Bali Commission Commissioner I Gede John Darmawan said in addition to coordinating with Bali Dinkes, they also asked for the help of colleges that have medical faculties to drop personnel as volunteers.

“For Bali Dinkes who are health centers, they will open a health service post so on holidays the health center will remain open, they will also carry out the process of checking the circumference. We also need volunteers from the health workforce who are licensed to carry out on-the-spot checking practices,” he said.

The Bali Commission has already mapped out potential health problems that afflict organizers at polling stations, such as stress and fatigue.

“If the level of stress is definitely because we face many people with different emotional levels, we have mapped the hours of high stress levels, starting from 7 to 8 a.m. the process of setting up polling stations, receiving logistical counting, and also the number of voters present at 7 to 9 a.m.,” he said.

The Bali KPU saw the potential for high stress experienced by KPPS around 11.00-13.00 Wita, when it targeted transfer voters and electronic ID card users who came.

“After that we require them to take a break of at least an hour for lunch and a short refreshment, if anyone wants to smoke please, those who want to drink coffee should not be too much. After that, the process of counting the ballots, each ballot is counted in a pause of approximately 15-30 minutes to be able to refresh again,” John said.

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