TNI Commander Appreciates Health Workers Who Relentlessly Work Every Day

JAKARTA - TNI Commander Marshal TNI Hadi Tjahjanto appreciates and provides moral support to all health workers (nakes) who work every day, day and night without knowing holidays to carry out vaccinations to the community.

"The National Police Chief and I appreciate the extraordinary dedication to health workers to control COVID-19 by accelerating vaccinations," said the TNI Commander who was accompanied by the National Police Chief General Listyo Prabowo while reviewing the implementation of the vaccination raid at Pancasila University, Lenteng Agung, South Jakarta, quoted by Antara. , Monday, July 5th.

According to the TNI Commander, the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination has reached almost 50 percent with an estimated 4,700,000 people.

"Therefore, specifically for DKI Jakarta, I and the National Police Chief help mobilize health workers from the TNI and Polri including the Health Service, BKKBN, and students who are practicing, we must mobilize all of them," continued Marshal Hadi.

Based on the calculation, every 50 health workers starting from the screening administration process, then each can vaccinate about 2,000 people.

The Commander in Chief said that the TNI-Polri had deployed a force of approximately 1,355 people so that an additional 2,500 health workers were needed to be filled by the Health Service, BKKBN, volunteers, and students.

"If the target of 3,800 health workers is met, then in August 2021 Jakarta will have completed and achieved herd immunity with a daily target of 165,000 people being vaccinated. That is our hope, hopefully this desire can be achieved until August 2021 and Jakarta has achieved herd immunity , that's what we want together," said the former Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense.

The TNI vaccinator team on duty at Pancasila University consists of 14 doctors and 36 paramedics.

For the vaccine target starting from June 21 to July 1, 2021 as many as 4,000 people and from July 5 to 8, 2021 as many as 8,000 people) so that the total is 12,000 people.

Meanwhile, to achieve the target on June 21-July 1 2021 for the general public as many as 3,103 people and 1,209 students for a total of 4,312 people, while the vaccine plan for July 5, 2021 is 2,000 vaccines for the general public, students, and youth.

On the sidelines of reviewing vaccination attacks, the Commander in Chief advised and reminded the public that even though they have been vaccinated, they must still maintain health protocols, wear masks, wash hands, and maintain distance.