DHF Case Rises And 4 Bogor City Residents Die, Council Asks City Government To Spread Health Workers In Each RT

An illustration of fogging or infiltration of killing mosquitoes (ANTARA)

BOGOR - Chairman of the Bogor City DPRD, Atang Trisnanto, asked the Bogor City Government (Pemkot) to spread health workers (Nakes) in each RT in the Bogor City area. This request was submitted following patients with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in Bogor City currently booming at the Bogor City Regional General Hospital (RSUD), and recorded 845 cases with a total of four deaths in 2024. "We received information that the DHF patient at the Bogor City Hospital is currently moderate booming, especially in rooms for children that are already full, "We ask the Bogor City Government to immediately spread health workers to each RT, to check residents if there are residents infected with dengue that cannot be handled in hospitals," in addition to checking the condition of residents infected with dengue fever, according to the Chairman of the Bogor City DPRD, these health workers are expected to be able to educate directly the community below, to actively carry out the Mosquito Nest Eradication Movement (PSN) in their environment. "At least you have to do it often surveys to be able to find and record places that have the potential to become a hotbed for dengue fever," also came to residents' houses to see whether there was a puddle or not. At the same time, educating the public to do 3M plus and take precautions, "As well as, in addition to 3M Plus activities in the form of burying, draining, closing, folding clothes that are hung which are the nests of mosquitoes. Eradication of mosquito larvae can also be done through community service every week Once, fogging, and giving abate drug to be placed in a puddle. "We hope that these health workers can be directly involved in educating residents, so that with the efforts that have been made, there is no longer a place for the Aedes Aegypti mosquito to develop," After preventive efforts were made, the chairman of the Bogor City DPRD also assessed that curative action was also important, because the community was not necessarily educative about the dengue case. Sometimes people think it is trivial when their bodies feel nausea and fever. "Maybe Considered not a dengue. Considered a disease, fever. So it needs to be educated, if you have taken medication, the fever has not decreased for days, so you can be indicated to have DHF. So it must be immediately checked to the Puskesmas, "On this occasion, the chairman of the Bogor City DPRD also reminded that efforts by going directly to the community can be carried out consistently. This is done so that the City of Bogor does not enter the status of the Extraordinary Event (KLB) of the DHF case. "DHF not only attacking during the rainy season, even during the dry season, the potential for someone to be infected with dengue fever is still there, not to mention that Indonesia is an endemic country for dengue fever. Therefore, we have to do extra work so that the number of people infected with dengue fever does not continue to increase, "It is known that the number of dengue cases in Bogor City has touched 845 cases in early 2024. Where, as many as 4 people died. Meanwhile, the details of this case consist of, January there were 389 cases of dengue fever and February there were 456 cases.

Interestingly, from PSN activities carried out by the Bogor City Government in Wates Village, Sukapeace Village, Tanah Sareal District, Bogor City a few days ago, officers found mosquito larvae in a drinking water or dispenser and a refrigerator shelter in a resident's house.