While the Idul Fitri holiday is a time of festive celebration with family, the mudik exodus prior to the holiday, involving hundreds of millions of Indonesians travelling to their hometowns. In 2016, 1,261 people died from road accidents during Lebaran. The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) is assigning thousands of volunteer to remain on-call to man ambulances and take care of medical emergencies.
\r\n“PMI has approximately 250,000 ambulances all prepared as well as doctors volunteers, nurse volunteers and so on,” said PMI chairman Jusuf Kalla. Besides the ambulances it has prepared 586 first aid posts and 8,422 volunteers, including doctors and paramedics. |
