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International
Hospital in Bali
Australian-Funded
Burns Unit Inaugurated
Sanglah
Public Hospital that gave maximal assistance
towards the bomb victims of last 12 October
2002 is to become an international hospital.
The hospital has now constructed an international
wing with total funding of Rp 47 billion.
President
Megawati Soe-karnoputri laid the foundation
stone to opened the international wing Friday
(2/7). On the occasion, Megawati also inaugurated
the project of the Burns Treatment Unit,
ICU and ICCU, with aid from the Australian
government.
The International Wing Building is constructed
on land of 3500 square meters with the building
measuring 4,981 square meters funded by
the National Budget. It is planned that
the four-floored building will be worked
over two terms. The first term will be done
in 2004 with some Rp 20 billions for the
completion of the first and second floors,
while the second term will be carried out
in 2005, with estimated fund amounting to
some Rp 7 billions for the physical building
and some Rp 20 billions for equipping it
with medical and non-medical equipment.
According to Division Head of the Planning
and Information Program of Sanglah Public
Hospital, Dr. Arya Warsaba Sthiraprana Duarsa,
MM the international wing consisted of Medical
Check-ups, ENT Polyclinic, operation room,
radiology room, laboratory and gift shops
on the first floor. While the second floor
consists of Dental Polyclinic, Dermatological
Polyclinic, Neurological Polyclinic, Husbandry
Polyclinic, Childcare Polyclinic, Confinement
Room, Baby Room and Treatment Room.
The entire 30 treatment rooms on the third
floor comprise two categories, namely 20
VIP and 10 VVIP rooms. In the meantime,
the fourth floor is used as a workshop room
and warehouse.
Australian Grant Aid
According to Doctor Ari, the Burns Treatment
Unit, ICU and ICCU were a grant aid from
the Australian government that amounted
to A$ 3.46 millions. It was brought about
to memorize the Bali bomb tragedy, so the
Australian government have named the Burn
Treatment Unit “12 October Australian
Memorial Center.”The Burns Treatment
Unit, ICU and ICCU building is constructed
with two floors measuring 1,558 square meters
in the Jasmine Room which was used for patients
of the Bali bomb blast as a special room
for burn treatment. This building has 35
beds that comprise 14 ICU beds and 6 ICCU
beds on the first floor.
While on the second floor, there are 15
beds for burns added with 1 operation room.
This building is also completed with international
standard medical devices that were aided
by Australia.
In addition, other projects that constitute
the package content of the grant aid of
the Australian government, is the refurbishment
of a corpse room, purchase of an incinerator
and the development of a water supply. It
also rendered grant aid for safe community
development amounting to A$ 1 million.
The Australian Parliamentary Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, Chris Gallus, on her speech,
said that the Memorial Center was presented
as a practical living memorial for the victims
of Bali tragedy and showed the commitment
of Australia to lend a hand to Balinese
people. She also added, the new health facilities
was part of the Bali Memorial package amounting
to A$ 10.5 millions from the Australian
government that consisted of a unit of intensive
care and burns treatment. “Our grant
aid is aiming at improving the health system
in Bali on the post-terrorist attack on
the 12 October 2002 that killed 202 people,
which included 88 Australians and 39 Indonesians,”
she observed.
It was also added that some of the aid package
was used for improving other facilities
at Sanglah Public Hospital and providing
training for the staff. Australia delivered
grant aid amounting to A$ 3 millions for
the construction of an Australia-Bali Memorial
Eye Center and two mobile clinic vans for
eye treatment.
“This new eye center is intended to
improve the vision recovery and blindness
prevention program to overcome the operational
blindness issues that affect more than 50,000
people in Bali,” said Gallus. She added
that as well that her government has delivered
health and medical scholarships worth A$
3 millions for five years for the aspirants
from health system officials in Bali.
The inauguration that was witnessed by Minister
of Health Dr. Achmad Sajudi, Minister of
Culture and Tourism I Gede Ardika, the Australian
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs Mrs. Chris Gallus and
Governor of Bali Dewa Beratha. (BTN/sana/para)
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