PANDEGLANG, Dec. 26 -- Entering fourth day after the Sunda Strait tsunami, the hospital receiving bodies of victims killed in the volcanic tsunami has started to make extra moves in securing hygene and health care in relevant facilities.
Hospital attendants working at the two facilities receiving bodies in Banten province's Berkah regional hospital in Pandeglang regency had to put on masks.
The hospital, which is located in the worst-hit regency of Pandeglang has recently been appointed to receive bodies from several public health centers.
It also hosts the identification process of bodies recovered by search teams in several locations alongside the Banten province coastline, which is carried out by the police's Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) unit.
Hospital director Firmansyah told Xinhua here on Wednesday that the hospital's mortuary is barely able to store all the several hundreds of bodies sent here in the past few days.
Besides, the hospital is also treating 122 patients injured from the tsunami.
"Most of the injuries are fracture cases, followed by injuries in the head that hit by stuff," Firmansyah said.
"Many of them who are from cities of other provinces were picked up by their families for further treatments in their own cities," he said.
Banten Provincial Police Chief Tomsi Tohir who visited the hospital early in the day said that the police's DVI team has so far recovered 238 bodies in Banten province, among which, 21 have not been identified by the unit yet.
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