Experts recommend that the government do PE in cases of mumps and smallpox

Experts recommend that the government do PE in cases of <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/indonesia-experienced-the-worlds-largest-decrease-in-public-trust-in-vaccines/" title="Indonesia Experienced the World's Largest Decrease in Public Trust in Vaccines”>mumps and smallpox

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Saturday, 02 November 2024 – 20:01 WIB

elshinta.com – Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (FK-UI) Dr. Tjandra Yoga Aditama advised the health authorities to conduct an Epidemiological Survey (EP) to investigate in depth the reasons for the simultaneous outbreak of smallpox and smallpox.

“What must be observed is that if it is true that there is an increase in two diseases at the same time in several regions in Indonesia,” Dr. Tjandra told ANTARA in Jakarta, Saturday.

Responding to the discovery of cases of smallpox and smallpox in children that happened at the same time in one of the schools in South Tangerang, Tjandra assessed that there could be a PE to inform the government exactly what phenomena were appearing in the field.

This is because the two diseases come from different causes and the parts of the body that are attacked are also different.

The five things you need to pay attention to are that both diseases mainly attack children and that they have fever symptoms which are highly contagious. However, both are fairly mild and can heal well in a few days.

“It is very rare that the disease becomes serious and threatens health. “Then there are vaccines available for these two diseases, which are actually available in several health service facilities in our country, even if they are not or have not been included in the national vaccine development program,” he said. .

Another step that the government needs to take is to investigate the reality of the increase in cases in different sectors. Because of that, it might be possible in Indonesia to change in disease patterns or as a result of increased diagnostic sensitivity.

More when confirmed disease problem The public must therefore be informed immediately, both to calm and maintain public awareness and sick children must receive the best possible health care.

“The government must determine the situation that has occurred and take immediate steps to address it,” he said.

Professor Tjandra said that parents must be vigilant if their children are suffering from the symptoms of these two diseases, and ensure that the child is taken immediately to the nearest health facility for medical treatment .

At the same time, he asked the school to continue increasing vigilance. If several similar cases are found in the classroom, school administrators must immediately coordinate with the community health center or existing health workers.

“We hope that the current problem of the two diseases will be solved quickly, especially since this happened in the first 100 days of our new government,” said the former Director of Infectious Diseases WHO East- south asia.

Before that, news spread on social media about dozens of students at SMPN 8 South Tangerang suffering from chicken pox. This forced the school to implement distance learning for two weeks to prevent further spread.

As a follow-up to the findings of this case, the Ministry of Health said that they would soon issue a Circular (SE) Awareness on Chicken Pox (Varicella) and Mumps (Croc).

Source: Inter