New Cases Of Acute Kidney Failure Indicate Weak Early Detection By The Government

UNSPLASH ILLUSTRATION/Akram Huseyn

JAKARTA - Griffith University Australia's global health safety and resilience expert, Dicky Budiman, stated that the findings of new cases of acute kidney failure are evidence of the weakness of early health detection.

“This is a classic excuse that has never been corrected. This means that there is no strong commitment to improve regulation. It's not like the spirit of revising or making new regulations in other sectors," said Dicky as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, February 7.

Dicky said that a weak detection has the potential to trigger the discovery of other new cases that are similar or similar in a different form according to scientific logic. Moreover, cases of acute kidney failure talk about drugs that are distributed freely in the community.

With weak detection, each case cannot be monitored properly. He considered this to be very dangerous, because one case that was found could illustrate what the actual iceberg phenomenon was like in society.

Dicky assessed that the detection system for all diseases in Indonesia had not changed much in the last 20 to 30 years. In the context of ensuring that all medicines and food are safe and of good quality, Indonesia is still weak, even on an ASEAN scale.

He said that the re-discovery of cases of acute kidney failure in children should be used as a valuable lesson as well as momentum to improve health regulations that are still weak. This is very important to do as a form of government concern for the quality of public health.

"Our approach must be based on science, not political economy because that is a big problem. If not, this will not solve the problem and may even give birth to new problems," he said.

According to him, President Joko Widodo has conveyed that the focus on handling outbreaks or cases of unusual diseases must always be solved on a science-based basis.

Because of that, Dicky asked the government to find a way by cooperating with stakeholders to strengthen early detection while identifying problems in more detail by setting aside political or economic problems first.

He also advised the government to immediately determine the status of acute kidney failure as an Extraordinary Event (KLB). With the aim that all regulations, handling, and movement from the center to the regions can be carried out simultaneously and evenly.