Summary: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 on the Richter scale on November 21, 2022, in Cianjur District, West Java Province, with a depth of 1 km from the surface, was caused by the Cugenang Fault. Approximately 114.683 people were affected and were IDPs. Of 47 primary health centers in Cianjur, 13 health centers experienced major damage. Medical logistics management is urgently needed at critical times like this to distribute medicines, medical devices, and disposable medical supplies to the affected areas to immediately replace the stock of health centers or village midwives that have been used, as well as to manage aid so that it does not pile up in the health cluster coordination post. This field report was written using an observational descriptive approach, where the authors were part of a joint team sent by Universitas Gadjah Mada. The team consists of a management team, which is deployed to assist in the management of the health emergency operation and cluster coordination post (HEOC), and one n-EMT type-1 mobile to provide health assistance in the affected population attached to local health providers such as village midwives or primary health center (Puskesmas). The lesson learnt was that there was no accumulation of medical logistic donations at the Health Cluster Post or the district pharmacy installation (IFK). The head of the Cianjur district office hall was used as a temporary storage place for donated logistics by nEMT and other volunteer and distributed back to nEMT with incomplete drugs for their service activity in IDPs. In one month of response operations, the HEOC was able to mobilize donations to serve 1388 health posts operated by nEMTs, 163 primary health centers, and 32 hospitals. The operationalization of the Cianjur HEOC’s logistics team is supported by adequate pharmaceutical personnel from the Indonesian Pharmacists Association (ATB-IAI).
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