NTT Earthquake Response: Indonesia’s Health Ministry is keeping surgery and trauma care running after Ruteng Regional Hospital damage, expanding a 100-bed field hospital at Golo Dukal Stadium with sterile surgical tents and specialist teams. Disaster Relief & Housing: BNPB is preparing housing repair aid for Flores survivors—Rp15m for lightly damaged homes, Rp30m for moderate damage, plus Rp600,000 housing waiting funds for severe cases—while aid logistics reach 253 tons and a provincial relief fund tops Rp4.36b. Public Health Under Strain: Flores quake damage includes 172 health facilities, and displaced families report fear and trauma as medical and psychosocial support continues in shelters. Syphilis Resurgence: East Asia is seeing a rebound in syphilis, with South Korea reporting 1,300 cases since January and a sharp rise in recent years. Humanitarian Safety: An op-ed warns that when aid workers are killed, children face the worst fallout—food stops, health services break, and child protection shuts down. Local Health Access: Indonesia’s alms agency (Baznas) is running relief operations that combine food, evacuation tents, and healthcare services in quake-hit Flores. Health Tech/Trials: Recce Pharmaceuticals secured Australian ethics approval to expand its Phase 3 diabetic foot infection trial with a new active-controlled antibiotic comparison arm. Wellness & Policy: Indonesia is pushing higher-value patchouli oil processing and exports as essential-oil demand grows.