Having Failed Acute Systems Is Not A Small Problem, Jokowi Asks All Teams To Pay Serious Attention

President Joko Widodo gave directions at the meeting on Handling Accounting for Acute Kidneys at the Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java, Monday (24/10/2022). ANTARA

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo reminded all his staff in the government that cases of acute kidney failure are not a small problem so they must get common attention. "I want all of us to pay common attention. The first thing is to prioritize public safety, don't think this is a small problem. This is a big problem," Jokowi said, quoted from the Presidential Secretariat's Youtube via Antara, Monday, October 24. Jokowi is giving directions at the ACUTE Kidney failure Handling meeting at the Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java. Based on reports received, the cause of cases of acute kidney failure was due to high contamination of solvent material above the threshold, such as the problem of glycol ethilen (EG) and dietilen dlikol (DEG), dietilen glycol butil ether, and others. "And if we look at the data until October 23, 2022, there have been 245 cases in 26 provinces," he explained. He admitted that on Sunday he had conveyed to the health minister to temporarily stop the drugs that were suspected to be dangerous. "Although it is still suspected, it was stopped first, waiting for a thorough investigation from BPOM on all sirop drugs that use solvent materials, and carried out openly, transparently but also carefully and objectively," he explained.