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View all search resultsBodies of AirAsia victims in critical state, says expert
An expert has warned that entering the eighth day of the search for AirAsia flight QZ8501 victims, the bodies have moved to the later stage of decomposition, posing a threat of bacterial contamination to evacuation team members
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n expert has warned that entering the eighth day of the search for AirAsia flight QZ8501 victims, the bodies have moved to the later stage of decomposition, posing a threat of bacterial contamination to evacuation team members.
The director of Sultan Imanuddin Regional General Hospital (RSUD) Pangkalan Bun, Suyuti Syamsul, said Search and Rescue (SAR) team members must be very careful in handling the QZ8501 victims due to health risks the decomposing bodies pose.
'SAR team members must wear special outfits because the bodies are now decomposing at a risky and dangerous level,' he said as quoted by Antara news agency in Pangkalan Bun on Sunday.
The bodies of three more victims were recovered and taken to RSUD Sultan Imanuddin on Sunday. Unlike earlier evacuations, all SAR team members wore special white-colored protection outfits.
'Those outfits must be destroyed. We will burn them at 1,100 degrees Celsius. The SAR team members wore them when handling the dead bodies; thus, they were likely contaminated,' said Suyuti.
He further said that RSUD Sultan Imanuddin had also tightened measures to prevent the possible spread of microbes from the dead bodies.
Antara reported that the hospital's cleaning service officers were prepared to clean up liquid dripping from corpse bags using bleach and disinfectant. The floor and walls of the hospital's morgue are cleaned regularly to prevent infections. (ebf)(+++)
