JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of Commission IX of the House of Representatives (DPR) Emanuel Melkiades Laka Lena responded to the question of the embargo on the COVID-19 vaccine by several countries that was reported by Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin. The embargo is said to have the potential to cause delays in the availability of vaccines in the country.
"The COVID-19 vaccine embargo is a necessity that is expected to occur if the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be controlled", said Melki, Saturday, March 27.
According to him, the embargo was also a result of the many post-immunization follow-up events (AEFI). Where vaccination cases have caused fatalities in various countries.
With these various conditions, said Melki, the government should have started thinking about alternatives to the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine, which had absolutely no foreign intervention.
"Domestic vaccine production must be the concentration and attention of the government at this time. Either way, it must be considered and taken seriously so that domestic vaccines can be produced", he said.
Melki advised the government to seriously accelerate the development of domestic vaccines to finished products, such as the Nusantara Vaccine and the Red and White Vaccine.
"So, the alternative solution that is most likely to be done today is to really focus on the development of domestic vaccines, namely the Nusantara Vaccine and the Red and White Vaccine", he said. According to Melki, with a focus on developing vaccines made in the country can meet the needs of the country independently.
"Of course we also hope that if the domestically produced vaccine is sufficient, we can also export the vaccine abroad", said the legislator from East Nusa Tenggara.
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Therefore, in addition to continuing to pursue a route to supply vaccines from abroad, the government must also begin to pay extra and more serious attention to the acceleration of research, production, and use of domestic vaccines.
"Both the Nusantara Vaccine and the Red and White Vaccine", concluded Melki Laka Lena.
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