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 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Hospitals in Indonesia's flood-hit capital grappled with an influx of children suffering from diarrhea, authorities said Sunday as they fanned out to devastated areas to disinfect against the spread of disease.
"We are overloaded here," said Caroline Kawinda, a spokeswoman for Koja Hospital, which was treating 128 young patients from neighborhoods that were inundated by water.
Seasonal downpours last week caused rivers to spill their banks in some parts of Jakarta, a sprawling metropolis of 12 million people, covering half the city in black, smelly water in the worst floods in recent memory.
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