Second Booster Plan For Bantul Health Workers Adjusted To Vaccine Availability

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JAKARTA - The Bantul Health Office, Yogyakarta, has started to carry out a second booster COVID-19 vaccination for health workers there. However, taking into account the availability of the vaccine for the fourth dose.

Spokesperson for the Bantul COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Sri Wahyu Joko Santoso, said that health workers and other health human resources (HR) according to instructions from the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) must get a second booster.

"Our second booster in Bantul starts this week, so in accordance with the circular from the Ministry of Health, we will start this week by looking at the availability of vaccines distributed to districts from the center," said Sri Wahyu, Thursday, August 4.

The total number of health workers in Bantul Regency, both in health centers and hospitals and other health services, ranges from 8,000 to 9,000 people.

He said that the implementation of the second booster vaccination for health workers is not centered in one place, but at the local health facility where the health human resources are assigned.

"We are not centralizing it, so like the first booster implementation, health facilities will carry out their own at the puskesmas for health workers at the puskesmas, for hospitals are hospitals that are capable of serving vaccines," he continued, quoted from Antara.

He said, while for private clinics, private clinics and independent practice midwives, the health workers will follow the implementation of the vaccine in the local health center area.

According to him, the availability of vaccines for the second booster is currently around 1,200 doses, so it is admitted that there are still not enough vaccines to cover all health workers. In this second booster, the majority use the Moderna type.

"The first booster used mostly Moderna, this second booster also uses Moderna, so we still have limited vaccine availability left for Moderna, and then we wait for the drop from the center," he said.