Condition in Shanghai Hospital improve

Condition in Shanghai Hospital improve

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Conditions at Sanglah General Hospital improved significantly
on Tuesday with the arrival of five cool storage containers to
store the remaining 171 bodies from last week's blast victims.

The hospital's morgue and emergency unit was closed to the
media and the public on Tuesday following the arrival of foreign
investigators. Hospital officials said the closure was aimed at
providing security to victims being treated there and also to
prevent disturbance to the body identification process at the
morgue.

Previously, the bodies were laid on the floor of the
hospital's morgue due to a lack of cool storage facilities. The
hospital's morgue is only capable of handling 10 bodies at the
most.

The five containers have all been located at Sanglah hospital.
Two containers came from Surabaya, another two from Australia and
the fifth was donated by a Balinese businessman. The hospital now
has 12 cool storage containers.

The containers from Australia arrived at 5 a.m. on Tuesday on
board a Royal Australian Air Force Hercules aircraft. Each
container can accommodate between 12 and 15 bodies, head of the
Bali Health Office Molin Yudiarsa said .

The two containers from Surabaya, meanwhile, are specially
designed to accommodate between 20 and 30 bodies each.

The removal of the bodies from the floor to the cool storage
containers was witnessed by the head of the National Intelligence
Agency, A.M. Hendropriyono, and Minister of Home Affairs Hari
Sabarno, who were on the island to visit the victims and the
blast site.

Meanwhile, 10 of the 181 bodies have been sent to their home
countries. One of the dead, an Australian, was cremated at Mumbul
in the Nusa Dua area at the request of his family. The body of a
U.S. citizen had also been sent home.

The crisis center at Sanglah hospital has also received
reports of 49 missing people, consisting of 22 foreigners, 10 of
them women, and 27 Indonesians, consisting of 19 men and eight
women. The missing had been reported to the Crisis Center by
their families.

Among those missing were four Australians, two Swedes, one
Dutch national, two South Koreans, one American and two French.
Some of the missing were identified as Mariae Johansson, 29, and
Dimittrios Anders Konstan, 27, both from Sweden, Jimmy Lumintang,
31, (Holland), Eun Yang Moon, 30, (S. Korea), Megan Eileen
Heffernan, 29, (USA).

Head of the Indonesian Police's Forensic Department's medical
team Sr. Comr. Edi Suryatna stated that the missing people had
not yet been confirmed as victims but as people reported missing
by their families.

"Don't get it wrong, the names (in the missing report) are of
missing persons, they are not victims," he said as quoted by
Antara.

The Bali provincial administration has allocated Rp 1 billion
to assist the blast victims.

"The money will be used to cover the costs of burying the dead
and treating those who are still in the hospital," Molin said.

He added that the money was intended for both Indonesians and
foreigners who had suffered in the blast.

Those who had paid their hospital bills or bought their own
medicines could file a claim with the Bali Health Office on Jl.
Melati in Denpasar, said Molin.

According to data released by the Sanglah Crisis Center, the
blast claimed 181 lives and wounded 328 others. The wounded are
being treated in 13 hospitals in Denpasar, with the largest
number found at Sanglah hospital. The other hospitals include the
Puri Raharja, Army, Kasih Ibu, Wangaya, Dharma Husaha, Dharma
Yadnya and Prima Medika hospitals.

Most of the patients have been transported to Australia. There
are 35 remaining patients, mostly suffering from severe burns,
who are being treated in emergency care.