Acting Regent Of Tangerang Orders RSUD To Prepare Medical Facilities For Monkeypox Patients

Tangerang Regent Official (Pj), Banten Province Andi Ony Prihartono (Azmi)/DOK ANTARA

TANGERANG - Tangerang Regent's official (Pj), Banten Province, Andi Ony Prihartono, submitted a request to every Regional General Hospital (RSUD) in his area to prepare medical care facilities and services for positive patients with monkeypox or Monkey Pox (Mpox). "I have appealed to the Head of the Health Service to convey to the three existing hospitals to prepare facilities for handling monkeypox patients," said Andi in Tangerang, Thursday, November 2. The request for fulfillment of this treatment facility is carried out as a step to handle and anticipate early the emergence of a monkeypox infectious disease in the area. "This is a measure to anticipate us, if the case is found. And what must be prepared is an isolation room," he said. As a form of preparedness and early vigilance as well as a response to the emergence of this monkeypox case, the Tangerang Regency Government has also conducted socialization and education to health workers to strengthen the surveillance, investigation, and close contact tracing system to the public. "We have also ordered health workers at the puskesmas level to take precautions with surveillance and socialization of the dangers of Monkey Pox disease," he said. So far, he continued, in the Tangerang Regency area, residents have not found any cases of monkeypox. "Indeed, the Ministry of Health has also conveyed to us to take precautions, although now there has been no discovery. But in South Tangerang there have been cases," he said.

With the prediction of the increase in cases, his party asked the public not to panic and remain vigilant about the emergence of monkeypox by increasing Clean and Healthy Lifestyle (PHBS) and improving health protocols. "Because indeed this disease cannot be transmitted if we carry out a healthy lifestyle, and I convey to the public to maintain health protocols," he said.