Another Infant Has Died in Agats

Kompas/P Raditya Mahendra Yasa

Assistance in the form of food, medicines and medical personnel are prepared to be distributed to community health centers (puskesmas) in eight districts, consisting of 28 villages in Agats district, Asmat regency, Papua, on Sunday (28/1). Medical personnel and doctors will serve in the villages for five days by providing food, vaccines and medicines to areas that have thus far been difficult to reach.

AGATS, KOMPAS – Two-year-old Selvana Tayapo, who suffered from malnutrition and a lung infection, passed away at Agats Regional General Hospital (RSUD) in Asmat regency, Papua, on Sunday at 7 a.m. Selvana’s passing brought the total number of children to have died from malnutrition and measles between September 2017 and January 28, 2018, to 71. “The girl is from Kaemo village in Siret district,” Agats hospital director Richard Mirino said on Sunday.

Selvana was brought from her village to Agats hospital on Saturday, Jan 20.. However, as the hospital was at full capacity, she was placed at the hall of the local Indonesian Protestant Church (GPI) with other patients, all of whom receive regular medical care. On Wednesday at 4 p.m., Selvana was transferred to Agats hospital as she required intensive care.