Complete Interview With President Jokowi During The Screening Process Before Being Injected With The COVID-19 Vaccine

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo is the first person in Indonesia to receive an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine in the national vaccination program which starts today.

This vaccine injection process is broadcast on the YouTube account of the Presidential Secretariat, Wednesday, January 13.

Before the injection is carried out, the president is required to undergo a number of medical stages, including screening for health conditions.

During the interview, the medical officer asked several questions. The following is an excerpt from the dialogue on President Joko Widodo's health screening process before injecting the COVID-19 vaccine

Medical officer: First check your blood pressure, sir

President Jokowi: Go ahead .. If you have high blood pressure, is there anything that is not allowed?

Medical staff: Yes, if the blood pressure is above 140 then it is not advisable to administer the vaccine… While waiting for the blood pressure I will take the temperature, sir.

President Jokowi: Yes, please

Medical staff: (Father's body temperature) 36.3 degrees Celsius .. Father's blood pressure is 130/67, this is healthy.

President Jokowi: Usually 70/100

Medical officer: Next I will ask some questions yes sir. First, has Mr. President been confirmed to have COVID-19?

President Jokowi: No.

Medical staff: Have you had any symptoms of cough, runny nose or fever in the last seven days?

President Jokowi: No.

Medical staff: Doesn't anyone have symptoms like that at home?

President Jokowi: Nothing

Medical Officer: So, have you had heart disease all this time?

President Jokowi: No.

Medical officer: Then for others like kidney or diabetes sir?

President Jokowi: Nothing

Medical staff: If so, it looks like there is no problem getting vaccinated. Hopefully the action (vaccine injection) is also going well.

President Jokowi: Amen. Thank you doctor.

After the screening process, President Joko Widodo then continued the vaccination process for the COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, the medical officers who administer the vaccine injection are Prof. Dr. Abdul Muthalib who is the Vice Chairman of the Presidential Medical Team.

Jokowi is known to have received the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine. This was discovered after medical officers showed the media crew just before the injection of the vaccine.

To note, in this vaccination process President Joko Widodo had to go through four medical stages. First is registration and data verification.

Second, the medical history screening, then the injection stage, and finally the monitoring stage for 30 minutes after injection to determine the effect of vaccine administration.