5 Children In The Bedouin Need Medicine For TB

Archives - Medical personnel at the Saung Sehat Badui Cijahe Health Post, Cirinten District, Lebak Regency are checking the health of the Bedouin community. BETWEEN ANTARA/HO-SRI

JAKARTA - Coordinator of Friends of Indonesian Volunteers (SRI) Muhammad Arif said five children of the Inner Bedouin in Cibeo Village, Kanekes Village need tuberculosis or tuberculosis to cure their disease. "The five Bedouin children were found to be positive for TB after an examination involving five doctors from IDI Serang and 21 coas students from the Faculty of Medicine Unjani Bandung," he said when contacted in Rangkasbitung, Lebak Regency, Banten, Antara, Wednesday, September 11. He said the handling of the five Inland Bedouin children who contracted the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TBC) bacteria required treatment for 6-9 months by taking drugs without interruption. According to him, until now the five Bedouin children have not received the necessary TB drugs. Therefore, his party coordinates with the Cisimeut Health Center as a task area in the Bedouin community area to try to get medicine quickly for them. "Because, if they don't get treatment, it is certain that their condition will get worse and can cause death. We hope that the five Bedouin children will immediately receive TB treatment by taking medicine for 6-9 months without interruption so that their souls are saved," said Arif. The Head of the Daily Executive of the Lebak District Health Office, Dr. Budi Mulyanto, said that his party had instructed the Cisimeut Health Center officers to immediately take the drug to the Health Office in Rangkasbitung for the treatment of the five Badui Dalam children who were positively identified as TB.

"We hope that the family can monitor them when taking drugs so that they don't cut them off for at least six months," said Dr. Budi.