Latest Health: Sumatran Disaster Victims Start to Get Sick, This is the Most Common Complaint Experienced

The Indonesian Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) provides the latest report on the health conditions of residents affected by the flood and landslide disasters in Aceh, West Sumatra and North Sumatra.
Data as of December 3 2025 shows the three most common health complaints. The following data is compiled from the Ministry of Health website:
Priority health care is provided starting from emergency services which include health checks, administering basic medicines and treating wounds.
Apart from that, disease control is also carried out such as fogging, disinfection of flooded areas and wearing masks.

Head of the Health Crisis Center, Agus Jamaludin, said that the high number of fever cases indicated that environmental and living conditions had not fully recovered after the disaster.
“Fever is the complaint that increases most rapidly after floods, especially when evacuation sites are crowded and access to clean water is limited. This is also due to inadequate body protection during evacuation,” he said.
Apart from the diseases that have been reported, post-flood conditions have the potential to cause an increase in cases of dengue fever and leptospirosis, because stagnant water left over from floods can become a breeding ground for mosquitoes that cause dengue fever.

Floods also cause water contamination and distribution of rat or other animal urine into evacuation areas which can increase the risk of Leptospirosis.

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