Villagers cure rash with iodine

Villagers cure rash with iodine

CILACAP, Central Java: Dozens of villagers in Cipari
subdistrict had to use iodine to cure their skin rashes due to a
shortage of medicine in the regency.

The skin rash spread in Cipari following heavy floods that
affected nine other villages early this week. About 9,000 people
got rashes after their houses were flooded and they used river
water for their daily needs.

"It is difficult to find appropriate medicine. The price is
also too expensive for us," a villager said yesterday.

Regent Herry Tabri acknowledged that he could not do much to
combat the irritation so far. (45)