December 2, 2025 | 05:28 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Ministry of Health has confirmed that several health facilities in Aceh were paralyzed following the flash floods and landslides on November 25. Data released by the Ministry of Health as of December 1, 2025, recorded that 7 hospitals and 136 community health centers (Puskesmas) across Aceh were currently unable to operate.
Head of the Ministry of Health's Communication Bureau, Aji Muhawarman, indicated that the most severe conditions were reported in Aceh Tamiang. There, both 2 hospitals and 15 Puskesmas have been unable to operate since the floods last week.
Aji mentioned that healthcare services are being administered temporarily at the evacuation sites. "Health services are being conducted at the evacuation sites or health posts. Medical or health personnel from the affected health facilities are being deployed to these locations," he conveyed when contacted on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
The 7 hospitals and 136 Puskesmas currently non-operational are distributed across 10 impacted regencies and cities. This includes 2 hospitals and 15 Puskesmas in Aceh Tamiang, 32 Puskesmas in Aceh Utara, 1 hospital and 27 Puskemas in Aceh Timur, 1 hospital and 5 Puskesmas in Kota Langsa, 1 hospital and 17 Puskesmas in Aceh Tengah, and 5 Puskesmas in Aceh Tenggara.
Other health facilities that have also ceased operations encompass 10 Puskesmas in Bireuen, 5 Puskesmas in Pidie Jaya, 1 hospital and 12 Puskesmas in Gayo Lues, and 1 hospital and 13 Puskesmas in Bener Meriah.
Chair of the Indonesian Pediatrician Association - Aceh, Raihan, previously stated that health services in Aceh were nearly immobilized due to power failures and several hospitals being inundated by floodwaters. Raihan explained they managed to sustain operations solely by employing generators. Health services have only recently commenced recovery today.
"So, at that time, the service was almost collapsing," he said via video conference on Monday, December 1, 2025.
In addition to facility impairment, in severely affected regions such as Aceh Tamiang, Langsa, Aceh Tengah, and Gayo Luwes, hospitals and health facilities experienced deficiencies of medical personnel and medicines. Concurrently, Raihan mentioned that they also encountered impediments in distributing medicines and adding medical staff. This difficulty arose because access routes to these areas were effectively severed. "We could only enter with helicopter assistance."
The natural disaster that impacted at least three provinces—Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra—occurred concurrently on November 25, 2025. The most recent figures from the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) recorded the death toll from the Sumatra disaster as of Monday night, December 1, 2025, reaching 604 people. The breakdown includes 151 deaths in Aceh, 165 fatalities in West Sumatra, and 283 in North Sumatra.
The Indonesian Pediatrician Association (IDAI) reports that, as of now, displaced children in North Sumatra, West Sumatra, and Aceh still face critical shortages of essential provisions. Some urgently required assistance includes antibiotic ointment, medication in syrup and drop formulations, water to dissolve powdered antibiotics, medicine spoons, diarrhea treatment, dermatitis medication, medication for acute respiratory infection (ISPA), drops for infants, and a combination syrup for ISPA. Additionally, refugees urgently require appropriate clothes, blankets, diapers, eucalyptus oil, as well as food and snacks for children.
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