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Hundreds of disease-stricken Papuan people badly need medical aid
Jayapura, Papua
(ANTARA News) - Hundreds of people in three villages of Kwoor district,
West Papua, reportedly stricken by diseases and malnutration were badly
in need of assistance in the form of medicines, paramedics and
nutritious food.
Hans Mambrasar, a leader of the local community and also a teacher
of the gospel (bible) as contacted by ANTARA, here, on Wednesday said
that at present hundreds of residents from the villages of Baddei,
Jokjoker and Kosefa in the Kwoor district have been evacuated to Bikar
and Werur villages in the Sausapor district.
"Hundreds of residents were trying to get adequate health services
by visiting Bikar Werur villages in the hope of receiving more attention
and medical assistance from the government and relevant parties," said
Hans who has been a bible teacher for 30 years in the Tambrauw district,
West Papua.
He further stressed that at present many residents were badly in
need of medicines, ready-to-wear clothes, nutritious foods and
paramedics. "The residents badly need aid," he said.
As to the desired health services in Bikar and Werur villages,
the places where hundreds of residents were sheltered, Hans said that
now they have got medical services from a farmer who understood well on
the disease feared by the residents.
"So, Mr Obeth Padwa, who has voluntarily given medicines and have
got the knowledge from reading books, is curing the residents wishing to
get health services," he said.
Touching on the symptoms of the disease which have killed tens of
residents, most of whom are children, Hans further stressed that they
suffered wounds in their lips, nose and legs which are difficult to
cure.
"Mostly the residents are worried that the disease could not be
cured, thus causing them to move to safer villages in a bid to get
adequate health services."
As reported before, at least 95 percent of residents in the
Kwoor district, West Papua, have died following the outbreak of the
disease in November 2012 until now due to poor health services.
Furthermore, Hans said that till now there has not any real
attention from local and central governments. "No relevant agency has
come to check the problem faced by the residents, and we hope this
problem could be immediately overcome."(*)
We already have penrcrmafoe enhancing drugs and hormones.The interesting thing is that even when the COMBLOC nations were using PEDs with wild abandon in the 70's and 80's they still weren't competitive. The boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics winning 100m time was the slowest since '56 at 10.25 sec. We know the East Germans were doing groundbreaking doping with steroids since at least 1971 as state policy. I don't know when drugs became big in US track and field but I think it was in the 80's.Someone pointed out something interesting the other day: there doesn't seem to be a strong racial trend in mixed martial arts, at least not to the same extent as is present in boxing. Big white wrestler-types seem to do OK. I don't know if that's a cultural artifact--wrestling is mostly a white rural sport and the skills are both hard to acquire and very useful in MMA--or if it reflects something deeper.
Jayapura, Papua
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