Polio Vaccine Rejection Appears In Semarang, Ministry Of Health Asks Local Government To Intensify Socialization

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SURABAYA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) asked local governments to increase socialization regarding the implementation of the Polio National Immunization Sub Week (PIN) to prevent rejection from residents.

"We are massively educating through other than the health office directly, through health cadres. We carry out it in collaboration," said Head of the Communication and Public Service Bureau of the Ministry of Health Siti Nadia Tarmizi at the ASEEC Univeristas Airlangga Surabaya building, East Java, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, January 18.

He emphasized the importance of socialization and counseling on the importance of polio immunization for children's health following a number of residents who refused to give their children polio immunizations in the Central Java region.

According to him, public literacy regarding the dangers of polio disease and prevention efforts needs to be increased.

"What is certain is that in this regard we are collaborating with the Central Java Health Office and the Semarang City Health Office to educate the public, explaining the benefits of this Sub Pin Polio," he said.

He suspects that there are parents who think polio cases are not found in Semarang, but in Klaten, so their children do not need to be immunized during Sub PIN Polio.

Padahal pemerintah melaksanakan Sub PIN Polio untuk mencegah kejadian serupa terjadi di daerah lain yang masih berada di satu wilayah provinsi.

"Mobility does not rule out the possibility of people from Klaten going to Semarang or Semarang people visiting Klaten. Therefore, we ensure prevention, just like the implementation in Surabaya, other areas in East Java are also carried out by Sub Pin Polio," he explained.

However, Siti Nadia believes that parents' awareness to include their children in the Polio Sub-PIN Program can increase after the implementation of education and socialization.

"This is still the third day, there are still stages of about four more days to educate and immunize the pursuit after Sub Pin Polio one week. Later there will be times when we do more intensively, especially for groups that still refuse," he explained.

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The government targets polio immunization to cover 95 percent of the target during the two rounds of the Polio Sub-PIN.

Meanwhile, Head of the East Java Provincial Health Office Erwin Astha Triyono stated that he was ready to carry out directions from the Ministry of Health regarding increasing socialization regarding the implementation of polio immunization.

"We are doing our best for the community, so that we can optimally convey the benefits and impacts," he said.

Erwin said polio immunization had been carried out on 2,108,537 children or 65.3 percent of the total 4,437,679 children who were targeted for immunization during Sub PIN Polio in the East Java region.

"East Java has 65.3 percent and Surabaya has 94 percent per day," he said.