saco-indonesia.com, Selama Gunung Kelud meletus pada Kamis malam lalu hingga Senin kemarin (17/2), jumlah pengungsi di lima lokasi yang berbeda telah menderita sakit, tercatat ada sekitar 123 orang. Rata-rata, mereka telah menderita penyakit Inspeksi Saluran Pernapasan Akut (ISPA) akibat menghirup banyak debu.
"Rata-rata mereka sakit karena terlalu banyak menghirup debu letusan Kelud," kata Wadan Satgas TNI AL, Letkol Rudi P Napitupulu di Posko Kesehatan Basarnas Lapangan Wates, Kediri, Jawa Timur, Selasa (18/2).
Rudi juga mengatakan, para pengungsi yang telah menderita ISPA di lima lokasi pengungsian itu di antaranya, Pos Pengungsian Wates, Wonorejo, Segaran, Juet dan Tawang.
"Di masing-masing pos, kita juga telah tempatkan beberapa personel, satu dokter umum dan tujuah orang medis, dan sejak Kelud meletus sampai Senin kemarin, jumlah pengungsi yang telah menderita ISPA ada sekitar 123 orang," ujarnya.
Dia juga menjelaskan, untuk langkah awal sebagai bentuk antisipasi atau pengobatan, pihaknya juga telah memberikan injeksi anti biotik sesuai aturan yang bisa digunakan. "Kemudian memberi obat batuk dan menyediakan masker sebagai antisipasi agar tidak kembali menghirup debu," terang Rudi.
Sementara data Satlak Pengungsi Gunung Kelud, telah tercatat ada sekitar 36 ribu pengungsi, yang tersebar di 36 titik di Kediri. Namun, karena banyak yang memaksa kembali pulang sejak Sabtu pagi lalu, jumlah pengungsi yang bertahan tinggal 16.400 jiwa.
Editor : Dian Sukmawati
PENGUNGSI KELUD DI KEDIRI BANYAK IDAP ISPA AKIBAT DEBU VULKANIK
From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.
In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.
Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.
The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff,” according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney’s office filed.
The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father’s influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.
The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.
It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. “Stay tuned,” the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.
Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.
That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.
Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father’s ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called “transformative economic development projects.” It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.
The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.
THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. “I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Mr. Baroni said. “I am an innocent man.”
The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.
Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.
That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.
Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.
Finding Scandal in New York and New Jersey, but No Shame