Police Investigate Cause Of Scavengers In Bima Died After Vaccine Injecting

Head of Public Relations of the NTB Police, Kombes Artanto/ANTARA

MATARAM - Police are investigating the cause of the death of a garbage scavenger named Lukman (34), in Bima Regency, West Nusa Tenggara after receiving an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine.

"This is being investigated," said Head of Public Relations of the NTB Police, Kombes Artanto in Mataram, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, December 28.

It is known that the victim breathed his last at around 12.00 WITA Tuesday, December 28, in a gazebo on the side of the road, Rupe Village, Langgudu District, Bima Regency.

According to information, Artanto said that before he died, the victim at around 10.30 WITA, vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Langgudu Sector Police Vaccine Outlet, Bima Regency. In the booth, the police carried out these activities together with the puskesmas.

"He was accompanied by his stepson to vaccinate him at the Langgudu Police. There he received the CoronaVac vaccine," he said.

According to information from the medical team who injected the Covid-19 vaccine, the victim had passed the health check stage. All stages, explained Artanto, have been carried out by the medical team according to procedures.

"So the SOP has been carried out by the team correctly. 'The screening and observation have been done. His blood pressure is also normal 120/80, the person concerned is also not sick so he is given an injection of vaccine. There are no complaints from the observations," he said.

However, there is other information from Lukman's stepson, Wilandra (17), he said, a week before getting the Covid-19 vaccine, his father often complained of headaches and fever.

"Headache, fever, it's been a week. Then he (Lukman) also took medicine," he said.

Kombes Artanto said his body had been transferred by the police along with other officers.

This sad news has also been conveyed to the families of the victims who are in Segenit Hamlet, Suradadi Village, Terara District, East Lombok Regency.

Even the police and the local Health Service have communicated with the victim's family regarding the police investigation plan to reveal the cause of Lukman's death by autopsy the body. "But the family refused the autopsy and chose to be buried immediately," he said.

Now Lukman's body is on a road trip from Bima Regency to his hometown in East Lombok Regency. "His body was taken directly to East Lombok using an ambulance belonging to the puskesmas," said Artanto.