Health Minister: Monkeypox Patient In Indonesia Has Recovered

JAKARTA - Health Minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said a confirmed patient of Monkeypox in Indonesia had been declared cured after undergoing intensive treatment at the hospital.

"I have just been informed that the current patient has recovered", said Budi Gunadi Sadikin when delivering a presentation about Monkeypox at the Commission IX Hearing Meeting (RDP) as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, August 30.

The patient is a 27-year-old male. Before infection, the patient had a history of travel to the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, and France.

Based on the investigation, the patient traveled abroad between July 22 and arrived back in Jakarta on August 8, 2022. The patient started experiencing the initial symptoms of Monkeypox on August 11, 2022.

After consulting with several health facilities, the patient was admitted to a hospital belonging to the Ministry of Health on August 18 and the patient's PCR test results were confirmed positive on August 19, 2022.

Minister of Health Budi said that currently there is a Monkeypox variant based on the results of observations of cases that appeared in 94 countries, namely the West African and Central African variants.

"The Central African variant is the more lethal, while the West African variant is the less lethal", he said.

Based on the results of genome sequencing, said Budi, the variant suffered by patients in Indonesia came from West Africa. "Not as deadly as in Central Africa", he said.

Meanwhile, the situation in Indonesia reported that there were 42 suspected cases of Monkeypox compiled by the Ministry of Health, one of which was confirmed as Monkeypox, 38 confirmed not Monkeypox and the other three are in the process of being researched.