COVID-19 In Indonesia Is Like A War, Let Minister Of Health Budi Gunadi Offer These 2 Strategies

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin. (Photo: Doc. BNPB)

JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin likened the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia to war. In order to win against him, there are 2 strategies that must be done.

The first strategy is to continue to carry out surveillance (Supervision). By implementing this strategy, we can later map how far the virus has spread.

To implement this strategy, it takes at least 80 thousand tracers or tracing people. So, with that amount you will get maximum results.

"The surveillance strategy or military language is intel, how can we know where the enemy is and they are moving anywhere. In the past, it was tracked using interrogation techniques now using testing and tracing techniques. This time we at the Ministry of Health realized that tracing needed 30 tracers per day. -100 thousand inhabitants, and must be scattered throughout the village, "Budi told reporters, Thursday, February 11.

The second strategy, namely, vaccination. In this way, all Indonesian people can increase their immunity and find it difficult to be infected with COVID-19.

Based on data, around 181 million Indonesians are targeted for vaccination. Each person must be vaccinated twice, thus requiring 362 million vaccines to defeat COVID-19.

"What did it kill with? What did it kill with the vaccine. Now this vaccine must be given to 181 million Indonesians. If each one is injected twice, that means 362 million shots must be injected," he said.

"If Mr. President asks for one year, it means that one day we have to inject one million, it is impossible for us to be strong ourselves. Once again this is a war where we have to kill the enemy, we hook the men from the Police and the TNI. Only he didn't use a gun, but he did not kill him. use a syringe, "he continued.

As previously, to support government programs related to vaccination, the National Police alerted 900 personnel to have been specially trained to become COVID-19 vaccinators.

"As many as 900 people, among whom have been trained to become vaccinators by Bapelkes or BBPK (Center for Health Training) of the Ministry of Health," said National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo.

In fact, in the near future there will be additional personnel to be deployed as vaccinators. Thus, the deployment of such personnel can help the government achieve the vaccination target.

"(About) another 12,600 personnel will be given similar training in the near future," said Listyo.

In addition, around 40,336 Bhabinkamtibmas personnel have also been alerted. Those who are scattered throughout Indonesia will be deployed to become Covid-19 tracer officers.

"It has been prepared to act as a tracer as an early detection step in anticipating the spread of COVID-19," he said.