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A specialist in internal medicine consultant hemato-oncology at the Tangerang District Hospital, Edi Sansaragi, explained that hemophilia patients will receive special treatment before receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
“We give these patients an injection of blood clotting factors before vaccination. As before, they were from the room we prepared for the injection first, after they were injected they were vaccinated,” said Edi, Wednesday (1/9/2021).
Handling after the vaccine will also be different because at the time of observation of hemophilia patients it takes longer than usual. If in the general public the observation is only for 30 minutes, then for hemophilia patients the observation is carried out for 2 hours or 120 minutes.
“Then we observe at the injection site whether there are bruises, we take action to add clotting factors,” he continued. (Read also; Tangerang District Hospital Overloaded, Covid-19 Patients Selected )
Meanwhile, cancer patients must be in remission. If the tumor in the patient’s body is no longer detectable, then it is allowed to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Especially for thalassemia patients, it is confirmed that he has not had a fever in the last three days, then his HB does not drop.
“For cancer patients, it is certain that they are not taking medication, are not undergoing treatment or chemotherapy, and are also only under control to control their cancer,” said Edi. (Read also; Already Over Capacity, Tangerang District Hospital Accommodates 107 Covid-19 Patients )
This vaccination program will run for the next month using the Pfizer vaccine. In addition to hemophilia and cancer, people who have other comorbidities can also get the COVID-19 vaccine at the Tangerang District Hospital.
“The program starts from yesterday until the next month, those who have diseases such as thalassemia, hemofolia, cancer, HIV, heart disease, and others in Banten Province, can get vaccinations at the Tangerang District Hospital,” explained Edi.
The stages, the association of internal medicine doctors, contact the entire community for cancer, thalassemia and other diseases. Then it will be registered and scheduled, after which it will be directed to the Tangerang District Hospital. “Every day there are 20 thalassemia patients, the target is that all of the comorbidities can be vaccinated,” concluded Edi.
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