The police members learned how to handle the burial to anticipate the lack of medical and burial workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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By WILIBRORDUS MEGANDIKA WICAKSONO
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Cilacap Police members carry a coffin during a simulation for the burial of COVID-19 patients in Cilacap, Central Java, on Tuesday (21/4/2020).
The Covid-19 outbreak continues and poses a threat to the regions. In anticipation of surging fatalities from Covid-19, personnel of the Cilacap Police and the Banyumas City Police were trained on how to bury bodies according to the Covid-19 protocol.
PURWOKERTO, KOMPAS — Personnel of the Banyumas City Police and Cilacap Police have been trained on burying the bodies of people who died of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). The police members learned how to handle the burial to anticipate the lack of medical and burial workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
"[Please] view this training as a means to improve your professionalism and noble duty. [Don’t forget to] pray for this activity to be training only and never to be applied in a real burial. That is, in the future Cilacap is safe from the coronavirus outbreak and other infectious diseases," Cilacap Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Dery Agung Wijaya told police personnel in Cilacap, Central Java, on Tuesday (21/4/2020), as quoted from a press release received on Tuesday night.
Dery said that during the training course, the police officers needed to boost their readiness and willingness to make sacrifices and uphold humanitarian values. Nineteen police officers participated in the course. They were shown on how to take care of a dead body through a role play. Some played the role of the ones taking care of the body, cleaning and wrapping the corpse, and others played as grave diggers, burial clergyman and disinfectant sprayers.
Aside from handling bodies, the simulation was also carried out by Cilacap Police crime unit (Inafis) members on first steps to be taken at a crime scene (TPTKP). The training also included information on what police officers should do when finding someone dead.
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Cilacap Police members spray disinfectant on an ambulance during a simulation for the burial of COVID-19 patients in Cilacap, Central Java, on Tuesday (21/4/2020).
During the training, the Inafis members wore hazmat suits when they visited the supposed crime scene and took measures according to the procedure while keeping a safe distance from the body. Aside from the Inafis team, the Cilacap Police traffic unit also conducted a simulation on Covid-19 protocols in handling accidents.
In Banyumas, Banyumas City Police chief Sr. Comr. Whisnu Caraka led a training course and simulation on how to bury the bodies of Covid-19 victims. The simulation started with officers wearing personal protective gear, spraying disinfectant, carrying coffins, spraying down the ambulance and carrying out the burial at the cemetery.
"The National Police as the front guard has the obligation to keep the situation conducive by conducting the burial of Covid-19 patients," said Whisnu.
Of the eight people, two were nurses at Banyumas Regional Hospital.
Banyumas Regent Achmad Husein said on Wednesday morning (22/4/2020) in a video posted on his social media account that there were eight more confirmed cases in the regency, bringing the total to 21 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Banyumas. Of the eight people, two were nurses at Banyumas Regional Hospital.
"Eight more people tested positive [for Covid-19], including a 38-year old female patient under surveillance [PDP], who worked as a nurse at Banyumas Regional Hospital from Adisana village, Kebasen district, and was possibly exposed in Bandung. Also, a 44-year old nurse of Banyumas Regional Hospital, from Kedunggede village in Banyumas, who likely contracted [the disease] at work," said Husein.
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Cilacap Resort Police personnel conducted a simulation of the corpses of Covid-19 patients in Cilacap, Central Java, on Tuesday (22/4/2020).
The six other cases, Husein said, were a 37-year-old female PDP from Jatilawang, who was likely infected in Jakarta; a 23-year-old male PDP from Pekunden, who also likely contracted the virus in Jakarta. There are also an 81-year-old male PDP and a 14-year-old male PDP from the Gowa cluster. Then there is an 18-year-old male PDP from East Purwokerto, who returned from Bandung and Bali at the end of March, and a 69-year-old female PDP from Sokanegara, East Purwokerto, who may have contracted the virus through contact with a local church community. "We must pay extra attention to patient number 5, who is 81 years old and had a stroke, and patient number 8, who is from a community. We have to track the community further," he explained.
