meninggalnya 62 warga Samenage, Kabupaten Yahukimo Papua, akibat kurangnya pelayanan kesehatan di daerah itu. Hal itu menampik keterangan yang dilontarkan Kepala Dinas Kesehatan Yahukimo Bonggo Sumule dan Menteri Kesehatan Nafsiah Mboi yang mengatakan, meninggalnya masyarakat akibat wabah penyakit.
 
“Pemerintah jangan mencoba mengalihkan isu yang terjadi di Samenage. Hal yang sebenarnya terjadi di daerah itu adalah, kurangnya pelayanan kesehatan terhadap masyarakat, sehingga ketika masyarakat tertimpa sakit tidak dapat tertolong dan akhirnya meninggal. Data yang kami publikasikanpun semuanya memiliki bukti kuat baik data tertulis, foto hingga video,” kata Pastor Jhon Jonga, Peraih  Yap Thiam Hien Award 2009, Bidang Penegakan Hak Asasi Manusia kepada wartawan, di Wamena, Jumat (19/4).
Menurut Dia, akibat kurangnya pelayanan kesehatan membuat banyak warga yang sakit tidak tertolong, bahkan banyak di antaranya meninggal. Bahkan, jika ada yang sakit berat dan keluarga memiliki cukup biaya, maka akan dibawa ke Wamena. Sementara yang tidak memiliki biaya banyak dibiarkan begitu saja dan akhirnya meninggal. Hal itu tejadi dalam kurun waktu tiga bulan, yakni Januari-Maret 2013.
“Menurut laporan masyarakat dan juga para kader, selama ini petugas kesehatan (mantri) tidak berada di Samenage, sehingga pelayanan kesehatan tidak berjalan dengan baik. Masyarakat tidak bisa sepenuhnya berharap pada kader, karena kemampuan kader sangat terbatas dan membutuhkan pendampingan. Selain itu, ada juga laporan dari masyarakat ada kader yang meminta bayaran kepada masyarakat ketika berobat,” ujarnya.

Dia menjelaskan, pada 26 Maret 2013, ketika tim baru sampai di Lapangan terbang Sawageit, tim mendapati masyarakat sendang membawa seorang wanita yang sakit berat dengan tandu dari kampung Hugi Lokon untuk diterbangkan ke Wamena. Ketika ditanyai, wanita itu menderita sakit di perut, kaki, serta tangan bengkak dan kulit kekuning-kuningan. “Pada saat tim kembali dari Samenage pada 2 April, pasien tersebut masih berada di ruang Unit Gawat Darurat (UGD) Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah Wamena.,” tambahnya.

Hal senada dilontarkan, Dorcas Kossay, tim investigasi Pastoral Keuskupan yang pada saat itu ke Samenage untuk melakukan kegiatan gereja. Dimana dirinya mengungkapkan, pelayanan kesehatan untuk ibu dan anak seperti Posyandu, pemeriksaan ibu hamil, penimbangan bayi balita, imunisasi di Distrik Samenage tidak berjalan. “Pelayanan kesehatan benar-banar tidak berjalan baik. Bahkan, kami mendapati di ruangan Puskesmas banyak obat-obatan berhamburan di lantai ruangan dan tidak terpakai,” kata Dorcas Kossay.
Menurut Dia, berdasarkan hasil wawancara dengan para kader dan melihat diagnosa penyakit selama tim mengadakan pengobatan gratis, dominan penyakit yang banyak diderita oleh masyarakat adalah limpah, malaria klinis, scabies, diare, asma, cacingan, kekurangan gizi, flu, dan demam panas.
Untuk masalah ini, ujarnya, dirinya sudah bertemu Wakil Bupati, Kepala Dinas Kesehatan Kabupaten Yahukimo. “Pada kesempatan itu, Wakil  Bupati menegaskan, dirinya gagal dalam melakukan pengawasan, sedangkan Kepala Dinas  Kesehatan mengakui dirinya gagal menangani para petugas medis di Distrik Samenage,” ujarnya.

Inilah data 62 warga Distrik Samenage yang meninggal :
1. Harian Hugi (18) Sesak nafas dan bengkak-bengkak di seluruh tubuh
2. Bace Wetapo     (2) Sesak nafas
3. Mince Wetapo    (1) Sesak nafas dan mencret
4. Loen Lokon    (2) Mencret Tanpa darah
5. Saliana  Hugi (3) Ispa Badang Lemah
6. Yohan Hugi    (42) Jantung bengkak dan sesak nafas
7. Faeto Ese    (3) Nafas sesak dan mencret
8. Alpius Hugi    (40) Seluruh Badan Bengkak
9. Napoke Hugi (43) Sakit ulu hati
10. Titimwa Hugi (50) Sakit ulu hati
11. Simon Wulep    (48) Mencret darah dan mata bengkak
12. Tituke Hugi    (46) Sesak nafas
13. Komahe Asso    (51) Sesak nafas dan ulu hati
14. Ameka Hugi    (21) Ispa Perut Kecalingan
15. Muliance Kuwam (18) Penemonia
16. Yahiah Hugi    (49) Sesak nafas
17. Ince Kuwam    (10) penemonia
18. Solapin Hugi (56) Penemonia + ulu hati
19. Yesmanto Hugi (20) Mencret darah
20. Paus Mumake    (48) tiba-tiba meninggal
21. Manto Asso    (5) Muntah diare
22. Misike Mumtake (18) Muntah darah
23. Poke Wetapo    (5) Batuk dan lender
24. Yolince Wetapo (1) Penemonia
25. Marminwa Kuwan (51) Sesak nafas
26. Lalikliak Wetapo (56) Sakit ulu hati
27. Tina Mumiake (56) Nafas sesak dan badan bengkak
28. Emeral Yelem (38) Sakt ulu hati dan nafas sesak
29. Tikilo Wahee (50) Sesak nafas
30. Naselek Asso (48) Penemonia
31. Esikep Asso    (29) Malaria
32. Habel Asso (18) Penemonia
33. Awari Mumiake (50) Nafas sesak ulu hati
34. Yawuato Mum    (38) Nafas sesak batuk
35. Erekik Mumiake (29) Mencret darah
36. Hesilik Mumiake (30) Penemonia
37. Wenehake Asso (49) Nafas sesak
38. Akaloak Asso (20) Penemonia
39. Matan Eseme    (18) Cacingan atau mencret
40. Yaris Mam (3) Diare biasa
41. Yorius Kiban (4) Batuk sesak nafas
42. Solina Asso    (5) Penemonia
43. Honopalek Mumiage (42) Ispa
44. Womkayo Mumiage (38) Sesak nafas
45. Nolukmo Mumiage (40) Batuk darah
46. Namuk Mumiage (24) Cacingan dan mencret
47. Yamus Mumiage (36) Penemonia
48. Ekentep Mumiage (56) Ispa
49. Aroki Esema    (38) Sesak nafas
50. Serenus Mumiage (20) Batuk pilek dan sesak nafas
51. Howatogohe E (46) Sakit ulu hati
52. Isael Mumiage (38) Paru-paru basah
53. Isak Kiban (49) Amobah
54. Yohana Mumiage (41) Sakit ulu hati
55. Muken Wetipo (38) Sesak nafas
56. Murue Esema    (24) Seluruh badan bengkak
57. Otiakma Kiban (47) Penemonia
58. Ameka kiban    (19) Ispa
59. Seliwa Kiban (48) Sakit hati
60. Wakma Mumiage (50) Jantung bengkak sesak nafas
61. Mama Mumiyake (45) Sesak  Nafas
62 Hapian Wetapo (16) Penyakit Dalam
Data tersebut ditulis oleh Habel Lokon, kader kesehatan yang bertugas di Puskesma Samenage.
Sumber: Tabloid Jubi Papua

'Pacem in Terris': 50 years later

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  Pope John XXIII signing Pacem in Terris (CNS photo)

Thomas C. Fox  |  Apr. 10, 2013NCR Today

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It was a most remarkable time. A pope had caught the attention of the entire world and was visibly leading believers and nonbelievers alike in much-needed moral leadership.

Pacem in Terris, Pope John XXIII's signature encyclical, was issued 50 years ago today.

His sense of optimism exhibited in the document was infectious. His idea of inclusiveness changed the Catholic mindset. His belief in the human spirit and the need to free it from self-imposed captivity caught the imagination of the world.

A year in the making, our beloved John, now Blessed John, knew the document would be his last word of encouragement. He knew he would not have another chance to address the critical issue of world peace. He was dying of cancer, and his pontificate would end only two months after he issued Pacem in Terris.

Yes, it was a remarkable undertaking, even revolutionary. He addressed the encyclical not only to Catholics but to "all men of good will." That was a first for a papal document in the modern era.

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The basic premise of John's thinking was that the bonds of humanity bind all people and all nations, and seen together, these bonds are more important that any doctrinal, national or ethnic differences. Based on these common bonds and common human aspirations, he called for an end to a climate of fear and for new openness to understanding. Specifically, he called for the end to the arms race through effective arms controls well before such discussions began between the world's superpowers.

No social encyclical since it has gained such non-Catholic attention. In an unprecedented move, the United Nations held a conference to examine the contents of the encyclical.

Pacem in Terris grew out of challenges and opportunities John saw facing the world.

It was his personal response to the deep international tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, most visible one year earlier, during the Cuban missile crisis.

According to Pope John's personal secretary, the pontiff began pondering the opus that would one day be called Pacem in Terris one long night during the crisis. He began by composing what he thought would be a message to President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev aimed at bringing the two warring sides together.

In the process, he unequivocally ended up declaring that nuclear weapons had to be banned from the planet.

"Justice, right reason, and the recognition of man's dignity cry out insistently for a cessation to the arms race," he wrote. "The stockpiles of armaments which have been built up in various countries must be reduced all round and simultaneously by the parties concerned. Nuclear weapons must be banned. A general agreement must be reached on a suitable disarmament program, with an effective system of mutual control."

Years later, Catholic author Gordon Zahn wrote that the "longer range effect of Pacem in Terris was to tip the theological scales against nuclear war and deterrence."

Pope John proposed a new world order to be built on four pillars: truth, justice, love and freedom.

Truth will build peace if every individual sincerely acknowledges not only his rights, but also his own duties towards others.

Justice will build peace if in practice everyone respects the rights of others and actually fulfills his duties towards them.

Love will build peace if people feel the needs of others as their own and share what they have with others, especially the values of mind and spirit, which they possess.

Freedom will build peace and make it thrive if, in the choice of the means to that end, people act according to reason and assume responsibility for their own actions.

The encyclical represented for the first time a fundamental Catholic embrace of the human rights tradition as found in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. Many in the church at the time saw this as a church reversal and a moment in which Catholic values and wider values based on human dignity finally met on common grounds.

John's thoughts on rights and freedom as one of those rights eventually found their way two years later into the important Second Vatican Council document Church in the Modern World.

Pondering the world and the human family, John saw goodness as the default premise. Out of this goodness, though marred by sin, came common human aspirations and progressive development. He looked at the world and saw human progress, listing some of these advances "as signs of the times," noting:

• people were becoming increasingly conscious of their human dignity;
• women and workers were claiming their basic rights;
• nations were achieving independence, breaking out of colonialism. They were founding governments on constitutions, included fundamental human rights;
• a new sense of world community was growing across the planet;
• national economies were growing more interdependent;
• people were rejecting violence as a means to settle disputes; and
• the entire human family was entering the era of the atom and the space/information age.

Part of the genius of the document was that John was able to present it in a language that resonated with believers and nonbelievers alike.

It was "at once eloquent and practical, diagnostic and therapeutic, historical and contemporary. Most important of all, it sets men's minds in a new direction, enabling them to break loose from notions of inevitability, defeatism, and despair," Norman Cousins wrote in Continuum in the summer of 1963.

Fifty years later, arms control negotiations continue to stumble forward even as nations continue to build and threaten to use these weapons. The U.S. maintains the largest stockpile of such weapons. World peace has not been achieved, but human longings for peace are no less palpable.

It will take the optimism and the faith of Pope John to move us down the path. Rekindling his commitment to peace building, his optimism about human nature and possibilities, his faith in the future, are timely and necessary undertakings. We should recommit ourselves to his vision.

[Thomas C. Fox is NCR publisher. Follow him on Twitter: @NCRTomFox.]