SUKABUMI – The Sukabumi City Health Service (Dinkes) continues to promote the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for elementary school level students.
Head of the P2P Division of the Sukabumi City Health Service, drg. Wita Darmawanti said that the Health Office is still trying to intensify the HPV vaccine by targeting elementary school students. “Alhamdulillah, until now we are continuing to carry out HPV vaccination for elementary school students,” Wita told reporters, Tuesday (15/8).
Wita continued, this immunization was encouraged again because the achievements during the pandemic were quite low. “If the immunization coverage is low, some may not even be achieved at all. If that’s the case, our risk is outbreaks (extraordinary events) of disease (even though) it can be prevented through immunization,” he explained.
According to him, immunization and the HPV vaccine will be given to school children in grades 1 to grade 5. Students in grades 1 and 2 are given vaccines for measles rubella, diphtheria and tetanus. Meanwhile, grade 5 students were added with the HPV vaccine and the delivery of the HPV vaccine was the first time it was held in Sukabumi City.
“For grade 5 added with HPV or Human Papilloma Virus, that’s what was just done in Sukabumi City, if in other cities it has been done starting in 2016,” he said.
He added, the administration of the vaccine referred to the SKB of 4 Ministers, namely the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Religion, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Health. He asked teachers to convey the importance of vaccination or immunization for children.
“Then apart from that, we also hope that the target will be achieved, yes, an increase compared to previous years, even though in 2022 it has actually started to increase compared to 2020 2021. The figure is above 90 percent but it is also quite difficult, it turns out that if you want 100 percent, he snapped. (bam)
2023-08-15 22:00:57
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