Ministry Of Health Reveals 1 Patient Suspected Of Acute Hepatitis Has Not Been Protected By Hepatitis AE Vaccine

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JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, revealed that one child patient in Jakarta who was reported to have died, allegedly due to acute hepatitis with severe symptoms, had not received the COVID-19 or hepatitis vaccine.

Meanwhile, the results of the Ministry of Health's investigation found the fact that the patient arrived at the hospital already in an advanced stage. "Just giving the hospital a little time to provide relief measures," said Siti Nadia Tarmizi, quoted by Antara, Thursday, May 5.

Nadia said the three patients aged 2 years had not yet received the COVID-19 and hepatitis AE vaccination, while the 8-year-old patient had received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and the 11 year old had received the complete two-dose vaccination. The three patients were reported negative for COVID-19 based on medical examinations at the hospital.

The Ministry of Health together with the DKI Jakarta Provincial Health Office have conducted a contact investigation to determine the risk factors present in the patient.

"From the available data, one case has had another disease before the patient was diagnosed with suspected acute hepatitis," he said.

Furthermore, Nadia added, the Ministry of Health has not yet classified the incident as a case of severe acute hepatitis because there is still a further phase of investigation in the form of laboratory tests, especially examination of Adenovirus and Hepatitis E, which will take 10-14 days.

"We haven't classified it into acute hepatitis with severe symptoms, but it has just entered the pending classification criteria because there are still laboratory tests," he said.

Meanwhile, from the three patients, there was no family history of hepatitis congenital disease.

"None of the three children had a history of the same disease symptoms," he said.

He detailed that the main complaints experienced by patients before being taken to the hospital, said Nadia, came from the gastrointestinal tract such as severe nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

The three pediatric patients were reported to have died at Dr. RSUPN. Ciptomangunkusumo Jakarta in a different period of time from the last two weeks until April 30, 2022. These three patients are referrals from hospitals in East Jakarta and West Jakarta.