Report from Tribunnews.com journalist, Rina Ayu
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – Vaccines have been shown to protect generations future. One attempt immunization The massive program that Indonesia has ever carried out is the National Immunization Week (PIN) program started in 1995. At that time, PIN was a program to eradicate the polio virus.
“Giving vaccine oral polio in 1995-1997 was given to anyone, regardless of the person it was given vaccine polio regularly or not. For those who have got immunization routine polio, then giving back vaccine polio will strengthen his immune system. Those who haven’t got it vaccine polio, then one can say get immunization basic “, explained dr. I Nyoman Kandun MPH, Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) Advisor, in the Productive Dialogue with the theme Learning from the Success of PIN Polio, which was held by the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPCPEN), Tuesday (17/11/2020).
He said the PIN was aimed at eradicating polio in Indonesia.
The community needs to know the stages of handling infectious diseases, namely controlling, eliminating and eradicating.
“Controlling is reducing the incidence of infectious diseases. Meanwhile, eliminating is pressing to a very low number, it can be up to zero, but the virus does not disappear. Eradicating means that in addition to reducing transmission to zero, the virus can also be eliminated. For example, smallpox, where there is no more smallpox virus, so we can say that it is eradicating smallpox, ”explained Dr. Nyoman.
The coverage of routine polio immunization, which began in 1995, had decreased due to the impact of the multi-dimensional crisis in the 1998-2002 period. In 2002, the government did a new PIN again. In 2005 the wild polio virus (wild polio virus) was identified in Cidahu, Sukabumi, West Java.
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“Handling the polio virus in Cidahu has actually been carried out in a fast action known as a sub PIN, so that the wild polio virus that enters Cidahu does not spread. But the virus spreads to Sumatra and other areas, ”explained dr. Nyoman.
The government then set it as KLB and returned to running the PIN. As a result, polio was successfully eradicated again in 2006.
Then in 2014, the polio-free label was given by WHO to Indonesia.
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