SOUTH BANGKA -- PT Timah Tbk's Healthy Car continues to provide free health services to communities around the mine. This time, PT Timah Tbk's Healthy Car visited Rajik Village, Simpang Rimba District, South Bangka Regency, Wednesday (12/10/2022).
The presence of PT Timah Tbk's Healthy Car was enthusiastically welcomed by the residents of Rajik Village. They flocked to the village office of Desa Rajik to get health services carried out in the car.
The residents consisting of the elderly, adults, and children are waiting in line waiting their turn to be examined by medical officers who are ready to serve them.
Sahrum (65), a resident of Rajik Village, came to check his health condition with his son-in-law. For the past four years, Sahrum has been suffering from various ailments.
According to him, so far, if he wants treatment, he has to travel quite a distance to Pangkalpinang, to Payung District, or to several other places.
"Earlier here on foot, there is no need for the cost of treatment. I usually go to Pangkalpinang and also need the cost of treatment. Thank God this is close to treatment," he said after receiving health services.
Sahrum is happy that the Health Car has health services that come to their village. She hopes that this Healthy Car can come again.
"It's nice to have treatment so close to walking, the doctor is also friendly. He is given medicine and it's free too. Hopefully, there will be more later," he said.
Similarly, Qori (10) was brought by her parents for treatment. He had complaints of fever and headache. In fact, it has been treated several times but is often repeated.
"Headache, fever, I want to get treatment so I can recover. It's nice to have treatment here," he said.
Meanwhile, Village Head Rajik Ruslan said the residents were quite enthusiastic to check their health at PT Timah Tbk's Healthy Car. The reason is seen by the number of people who come.
He said that his party had informed residents that there would be free health services for their residents.
"There are quite a lot of enthusiastic residents who come for treatment. Actually, the awareness of the community to seek treatment is quite high, but because the place for treatment is quite far from here, if you are sick, you will get treatment," he said.
According to Ruslan, in their village, there are only Mantri who help the community in terms of health. If they have a serious illness, they are usually referred to a hospital in Payung District, which is tens of kilometers from their village.
"If you usually go to the Simpang Rimba Health Center or Payung and Pangkalpinang. It's quite a distance of tens of kilometers. So the health services that come to this village are very helpful for the residents," he said.
He hopes that in the future PT Timah Tbk's Healthy Car can come back to Rajik Village so that it is easier for the community to seek treatment and can improve the quality of public health.
"Hopefully this program will continue, PT Timah Tbk's Healthy Car can come back, so our residents can get closer treatment and this is free, very helpful," he said.
According to him, in addition to providing health services for residents, PT Timah Tbk also routinely provides social assistance to their residents.
