Jakarta: The Community Empowerment Service (LPM) Section for Recovering Bodies (BARZAH) Dompet Dhuafa is holding training on procedures for handling the bodies of disaster victims or in emergencies. In collaboration with the National Police’s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), on Wednesday (7/11/2022).
The training, held for two days, carried the theme “Management of the Dead (MOTD) at the Sofyan Hotel Cut Meutia, Cikini, Jakarta. On the first day of implementation, the focus was on outreach regarding the proper disposal of bodies.
The ICRC described first aid evacuating bodies and a religious perspective in handling corpses. At the same time, PMI explained how their experiences involved managing bodies in disaster conditions.
“The ICRC is the first in terms of what actions can be taken as first aid in evacuating bodies. Then there is also ICRC material on how the actual religious perspective is in handling corpses,” said dr. Tjiang Sari Lestari, SpFM.
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While the training on the second day, it focused on practices in handling victims, lecturing methods, simulations, and discussions. Such as filling out labels, taking pictures of victims, and putting victims in body bags.
“Firstly, the participants are divided into small groups. Then to get a better feel for what they must do in the field. For instance, how to fill in a label on a corpse, how to take a photo, then how to fill out the form, how to put it in a body bag,” added the 33-year-old woman.
During the training, which involved 50 representative participants from 11 hospitals, ten ambulance partner foundations, and 12 Amil Jenazah throughout Jabodetabek, they were enthusiastic, as seen from the many participants who actively asked questions and were excited during practice.
“Today exceeded expectations because it was much better because, by chance, we wanted to try one additional new session, and it turned out to be very satisfying,” concluded dr. Tjiang Sari Lestari, SpFM.
The hope is that this program will not only add insight to the participants, but the knowledge gained can continue to flow to many people. Juperta Panji Utama, as General Manager of Dompet Dhuafa Social Services Dompet Dhuafa, still needs collaborative support with various stakeholders.
“Dompet Dhuafa can’t be alone. That is why we need cooperation and partners like ladies and gentlemen so we can carry out a program for handling corpses properly,” he said. One of the beneficiaries, Fajar, a representative from the Pasar Minggu Hospital, conveyed a lot of knowledge gained from this event.
“We hope events like this can be sustainable. Because, frankly, this is extraordinary knowledge that we did not understand at all before. Thank God, we met with the experts, speakers who were exceptional, very competent, ” said Fajar.