Indonesia Donates Vaccines To Africa Affected By The Mpox Outbreak

President Jokowi and officials including Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin/ANTARA/Rolandus Nampu.

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said Indonesia would donate vaccines to African countries affected by the Monkey Pox (Mpox) outbreak or monkeypox.

"In collaboration with Africa, we will later donate vaccines and detection devices such as PCR during COVID-19," he said, Monday, September 2.

In addition to vaccines, said Budi, Indonesia will donate a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to a country in Africa.

The Minister of Health explained that the PCR tool to be donated is an Indonesian-made tool produced by Indonesian experts.

"We are capable, our researchers are able to make good pathogenic or disease detection devices and we will donate them to Africa later," he said.

The target vaccine to be sent to African countries affected by monkeypox reaches 5,000 doses. This number comes from half the doses of vaccine that Indonesia will buy from Japan.

According to Budi Gunadi's information, Indonesia plans to buy 10,000 doses of vaccine from Japan. It is not yet known when this will be implemented.

"We plan to buy some of the vaccines from Japan for Indonesia, some of which we donate to Africa," he said.

"We plan to reach 10,000, maybe between the five thousand that we will continue to Africa," said Gunadi.