Presidential Staff Has High Hopes That All People With Disabilities Will Get The COVID-19 Vaccine

JAKARTA - The Special Staff of the President for Social Affairs, Angkie Yudistia, hopes that all people with disabilities in Indonesia can be given the COVID-19 vaccine.

According to data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), said Angkie in Jakarta, Friday night, the number of people with disabilities in Indonesia has reached 38 million.

"That's all actually, we really hope all of that can be achieved, yes, to achieve immunity," she said, as quoted by Antara, Saturday, April 17.

Of the total number of people with disabilities as many as 38 million people, said Angkie, groups with disabilities who are at a productive age reach 30 million. He hopes the local government (Pemda) pays attention to people with disabilities to be given the COVID-19 vaccine. The regional government is expected to make efforts to the maximum extent to serve COVID-19 vaccinations for persons with disabilities. "We hope to the maximum, as much as possible for each regional government to be able to handle COVID-19 vaccination against friends with disabilities," she said.

This is because people with disabilities are a group that is vulnerable to becoming fatal if exposed to COVID-19.

"So don't be exposed to COVID-19. So it takes very extra attention," she said.

Angkie noted that from the COVID-19 vaccination data in the last month or March 2021 there were already 2 thousand people with disabilities who were given the COVID-19 vaccine at the COVID-19 Vaccination Center.

"That is us as a pilot project in Jakarta. We hope that these areas will start. Earlier we coordinated with the Minister. The Minister said that this vulnerable group was in the third stage. But we hope, with the completion of the elderly (the advanced group is over), we can go to the COVID-19 vaccination for vulnerable groups. So we need collaboration together," he explained.