In 2024, Minister Of Health Budi Asks The Ministry Of Health To Have 90 Percent Of Complete Data For TB Sufferers

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin at the Indonesia Tuberculosis International Meeting (INA-TIME) 2022 in Bali (ANTARA/HO-Kemenkes)

JAKARTA - The government is trying to detect 90 percent of cases of TB disease by 2024. One way is by improving the disease surveillance strategy.

"From (the calculation, it is estimated that there are) 824 thousand TB sufferers. I ask that in 2024 90 percent of them must have been detected by name by address (based on name and address)," said Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin as quoted in a press release from the ministry in Jakarta, Saturday, September 10, quoted from Antara.

"The Ministry of Health now wants its good and correct surveillance strategy," he added.

When delivering his remarks at the Indonesia Tuberculosis International Meeting (INA-TIME) 2022 in Bali, Friday, September 9, Budi emphasized the importance of early detection and treatment in dealing with infectious diseases.

"The principle of infectious diseases is that we have to know where they are and we have to save them, that is the first priority task," he said.

He stated that genome sequencing (genome sequencing) procedures were needed to find out more quickly the variant of bacteria that causes tuberculosis.

Therefore, according to him, the government plans to carry out a pilot project for the operation of genome sequencing mobile to support the rapid detection of the bacterial variant that causes TB.

"Thus we can give the treatment package which really fits the patient," he said.

Meanwhile, the Director General of Disease Prevention and Control at the Ministry of Health, Maxi Rein Rondonuwu, said that TB is still the main health problem in Indonesia and in the world.

Tuberculosis is one of the ten main causes of death in the world. Indonesia is third on the list of countries with the highest TB load after India and China.

The Indonesian government is trying to eliminate TB by 2030 with a target rate of incidentation of 65 per 100,000 population and a death rate of six per 100,000 population.

According to the Global TB Report 2021, the number of cases of tuberculosis in Indonesia is estimated at 824,000 cases, but only 393,323 TB patients have been found, treated, and reported to the national information system, or 48 percent of the case estimated.

There are still around 52 percent of TB cases that have not been found or have been found but have not been reported.

In 2022, until September for the coverage of TB discovery and treatment, it is still 39 percent (target one year TC 90 percent) and the TB treatment success rate reaches 74 percent (target SR 90 percent).