BIAN Campaign, Anies Asks All Children To Be Immunized

In Jakarta, the DKI Provincial Government held a BIAN declaration at Cengkareng Hospital/PHOTO: DKI Provincial Government Public Relations

JAKARTA - The government held a National Child Immunization Month (BIAN) campaign during August. In Jakarta, the DKI Provincial Government held the declaration of BIAN at the Cengkareng Hospital.

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said the BIAN campaign was carried out to make up for the shortage of child immunization coverage.

Anies invites all citizens of DKI to take responsibility in protecting children. Not only the biological children of each individual, but other children who may not have been immunized by completing the entire immunization status of their child.

“We invite all parents to take responsibility for protecting their children. For parents it is important to protect the children we love. Don't let children interact with the environment without being protected by immunizations," said Anies at the location, Wednesday, August 3.

Anies asked all adults to help the children around him to complete their immunization needs.

“All the children, not just our children but nephews and others. Ask if they have taken the opportunity (completed the immunization status), if they haven't invited them to immunize, add measles to rubella," said Anies.

Meanwhile, the Head of the DKI Jakarta Health Office, Widyastuti, said that BIAN was an effort to prevent extraordinary events from occurring for diseases that could be prevented by immunization (KLB PD3I), due to a decrease in routine immunization coverage for children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Given, due to the pandemic, complete routine immunization for children has decreased in scope. According to the Ministry of Health, complete basic immunization coverage has declined significantly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, from 84.2 percent in 2020, to 79.6 percent in 2021.

"With the number of targets during August 2022 as many as 715,786 children or 35,789 targets per day, support from various sectors and professions is needed. It is hoped that the PD3I outbreak in DKI Jakarta Province can be prevented with the success of BIAN in 2022. said Widyastuti.

It is known, Jakarta has a target of infants and toddlers aged 9-59 months in the BIAN program. The immunization given is additional immunization against measles, rubella, regardless of immunization status.

Also, catch-up immunizations for those who have not completed oral polio immunization 4 times, injecting polio once, and DPT-Hb-Hib (pentabio) 3 times.