TB transmission can occur when children interact with other people at school.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Acting Director General of Disease Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Health, Maxi Rein Rondonuwu, stated that school-age children are a group at high risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB). Disease TBC caused by infection Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The bacteria can spread and be transmitted when an infected person sneezes or coughs. According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, Tuesday (27/7), school age is the age at which children study in education units and are actively familiar with their surroundings. At that age, children interact a lot with friends, teachers, and people in the school environment.
Transmission tuberculosis can occur when children interact with other people in the school environment. Therefore, schools as a place for children to gather and interact with other people play an important role in preventing TB transmission.
Maxi said that the TB Care School Guidelines have been prepared and can be a guide and program standard for educational units in developing patterns of efforts to prevent TB transmission. In the virtual dissemination of the TB Care School Guidelines on Monday (26/7), he stated that the spearhead of the implementation of tuberculosis prevention efforts in schools is the supervisor of the School Health Business (UKS) at the provincial and district/city levels.
The TB Care School Guidelines include efforts to disseminate information about TB TB transmission as well as efforts to prevent, examine, and treat the disease. According to data from the Global TBC Report2020, Indonesia is the country with the second highest TB burden after India with an estimated 845 thousand TB cases per year.
The death rate from tuberculosis every year is around 98,000 or the equivalent of 11 deaths in one hour. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in one year since March 2020 is 46 thousand cases. That figure is about half of the number of deaths from tuberculosis in the same period.
In 2019, the number of TB cases in Indonesia is estimated at 142 thousand cases. About 17 percent of them are cases of tuberculosis in children.
However, only 63,113 cases of tuberculosis in children or 62 percent of 101,160 cases of tuberculosis in children were found and treated during that period. The case finding rate is still below the target set at 75 percent.
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