REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- A Flying Health Care (FHC) team of the Ministry of Health has visited villages in the Asmat district, Papua Province. They were assigned to monitor health condition and conduct medical treatment to local inhabitants.

The FHC team for Asmat visited Nakai, Aou and Aoap, Kapi, As and Atat villages in Pulau Tiga District to conduct health services under the mobile health center program, the Ministry of Health said in a statement here on Monday.

The FHC V team which assigned to Asmat in the last 17 days is in charge of assisting the recovery and monitoring the health of the Asmat people following the outbreaks of measles and malnutrition recently.

In the activity, the team found a resident who had fallen from a bridge and get injured on the scrotum. In addition, the medical staff treated a child who had arm fracture in Nakai Village.

Meanwhile, in Aoap Village the team carried out health checks on every local inhabitant.

If there is a patient with serious health problems and can not be handled by the local community health center, the FHC team will directly refer him to regional public hospitals (RSUD) in Agats or Timika.

Since the outbreaks of measles and malnutrition occurring from September 2017 to early 2018, the Ministry of Health has sent health teams incorporated in FHC, logistical aid in the form of milk and biscuits for supplementary feeding.

FHC teams are deployed continuously to handle measles and malnutrition patients until the post-recovery period.

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