DENPASAR, KOMPAS.com – Head of Provincial Health Service (Dinkes). Bali I Nyoman Gede Anom claims that it is unlikely that a case will be found measles rubella in Bali.
According to Anom, this is because the coverage of measles vaccination (MR) in Bali is quite high.
“From those who got it in other areas, it’s possible that it’s because the measles immunization isn’t high yet. If it’s already good in Bali, there’s less chance of people getting measles,” said I Nyoman Gede Anom, in Denpasar, Sunday (22/1/2023), quoted from Antara.
He said that measles had long disappeared from Bali. Meanwhile, the status of extraordinary events (KLB) was pinned to provinces and districts/cities with the findings of these cases.
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“Because it hasn’t been there for a long time, now just one appears which will be called an outbreak, at this time we are monitoring it every day and in regencies/cities throughout Bali there has not been found measles,” he also said.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Anom said that immunization against measles for children continued to run routinely at the puskesmas and posyandu.
According to him, there are approximately 5,000 immunization locations in regencies/cities in Bali.
All parents who have babies are often advised to continue giving measles immunization according to the schedule in the notebook, so that nothing is left behind during a pandemic.
Measles immunization, said Anom, is one of 14 mandatory immunizations for children and is given free of charge by the government.
“We have asked the Ministry of Health for the vaccine, so until now no one has missed immunization and is safe, because our immunization is indeed high, hopefully there will be no cases,” he said.
