Surabaya City Health Service Takes Anticipatory Steps to Prevent Mysterious Pneumonia Outbreak

Liputan6.com, Surabaya – Head of the Surabaya City Health Service (Dinkes), Nanik Sukristina, stated that his party had taken a number of anticipatory steps to prevent the emergence of mysterious pneumonia which is currently widespread in China.

“For the case in the city of Surabaya, until now there have been no reports regarding the discovery of cases suspected of being caused by mysterious pneumonia,” he said, Saturday (9/12/2023).

Even though no cases have been found, Nanik explained a number of anticipatory steps taken by the Surabaya City Health Office, including issuing a Circular (SE) to all health service facilities (Fasyankes) to increase communication, information and education (KIE) efforts to the community regarding clean living behavior. and healthy (PHBS), as well as implementing health protocols in a strict and disciplined approach.

“Increasing early awareness, as well as increasing standards in infection prevention and control efforts in all health facilities, especially for cases suspected of pneumonia,” he explained.

Not only that, the Surabaya City Health Office also continues to disseminate information regarding awareness of the mysterious pneumonia disease and the importance of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) Immunization in the National Immunization program which is given twice at the age of 2-11 months and 1 (one) time at the age of 2-11 months. aged 12-24 months, as an effort to prevent pneumonia through Health Facilities in each region.

“We urge health facilities to report any cases of suspected mysterious pneumonia to the Surabaya City Health Service in less than 24 hours,” he said.

He appealed to the public, if someone has a history of travel to an infected country/region and has symptoms of pneumonia, such as dry cough or phlegm, fever >38 degrees Celsius, shortness of breath, chest pain when breathing, fatigue, decreased appetite, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, to immediately report and seek treatment at the nearest health facility.

“We are also monitoring the development of cases and infected countries at the global level through the official website of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia,” he concluded.

2023-12-09 11:06:44
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