One Positive Children Polio Found In Aceh, Ministry Of Health: No Immunization History

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) revealed that a seven-year-old child in Pidie Regency, Aceh, tested positive for polio. From the search results, it turned out that there was no history of immunization given.

"(The child, red) has no history of immunization and has no history of travel or contact with travelers or out, nothing," said Director General of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) Maxi Rein Rondonuwu in a press conference broadcast on the Indonesian Ministry of Health's YouTube, Saturday, November 19.

Maxi detailed that the child began to get sick on October 6. "There was heat and initial flu," he continued.

After that, the child felt paralyzed onset symptoms on the leg on October 9. After this incident, Maxi said the child was taken to the TCD Sigil Hospital on October 18.

"Then on October 21-22, the pediatrician suspected that he was polio and two specimens were taken which were sent to the province and to Jakarta," he explained.

Next, after the sample was tested, it was found that the child was positive for type two polio on November 10. The examination was carried out using the Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) method.

Maxi detailed that the child was experiencing a braking condition in the thigh and calf muscles. Even so, the child is now in recovery efforts because he can walk even though he is tenuous.

"It's just that he doesn't have any medicine, he's just going to be physiotherapy to maintain his muscle mass," said Maxi.

In this case, the Ministry of Health suspects that the behavior of defecating carelessly was the cause of the spread of polio. Maxi said that his party had visited the child's house and found that the waste from MCK was thrown directly into the small river.

Even though testing that contains the virus can transmit polio. "We have taken samples for inspection, we are just waiting maybe a two-day water sample has been released at several points," he said.

"So the behavior of bowel movements has potential, the possibility of transmission that is at risk we see here," concluded Maxi.