Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Jakarta`s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport has set up eight health care posts on its premises for the benefit of Lebaran holiday travelers, a Health Ministry spokesman said.

The ministry`s disease control and environmental sanitation spokesman Tjandra Yoga Aditama said at the airport on Thursday that the health posts were prepared to provided health services to holiday travelers.

"There is a health post at every terminal of the airport and a clinic which operates 24 hours and so we have 8 health posts all together at Soekarno-Hatta," Tjandra said.

He said the health posts 6 days before this year`s Lebaran festivity had already helped 34 patients. The number of passengers at the airport six and seven days before the holiday had increased from last year`s.

Besides, the Health Ministry had since Tuesday, August 23, 2011, opened a health post at 29 Percetakan Negara street in Central Jakarta for holiday travelers.

Tjandra said the post was set up by Health Ministry`s Disease Control and Environmental Sanitation (P2PL), and it could be directly accessed with National Police Headquarters` National Traffic Management Center.

From that post, road traffic development in Jakarta, South Sumatra, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, and Bali could be monitored through four TV monitoring screens.

The post can also be contacted by phone at number 02142877587 and Dr Lucky Tjahyono as contact person at number 0811902378, or through the facebook with profile name Mudik Sehat and Twitter @MudikSehat. (Uu.O001/HAJM)