Aceh grapples with disease after deadly floods

Hit by deadly floods, Indonesians in the region around Aceh Tamiang are grappling with worsening diseases and a lack of medical care as workers struggled to help dozens of residents at the lone hospital in the area.

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Cyclone-induced floods and landslides last week devastated three provinces on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, including Aceh, killing at least 940 people, with an additional 276 people listed as missing, government data showed on Sunday.

As residents lost their homes to pools of mud and debris, diseases got worse. Diseases included diarrhoea, fever or myalgia, triggered because the “environment and places of stay have not recovered post-disaster,” Indonesia's health ministry said last week.