Alhamdulillah, Bantul Elderly Hajj Pilgrims Start Vaccinating COVID-19

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JAKARTA - The Health Office of Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region has started vaccinating COVID-19 or mass injection of the Sinovac vaccine for prospective elderly or elderly pilgrims from this area.

"So today Bantul Regency has started mass vaccination, especially priorities for elderly pilgrims in 2021, whose departure for 2020 was postponed yesterday," said Bantul Vaccination Spokesman Abednego Dani Nugroho on the sidelines of vaccinations in Bantul, reported by Antara, Tuesday, March 6.

According to him, the number of targets for giving the COVID-19 vaccination in two days, namely April 6 and 7 at the Bantul Health Office (Dinkes) office yard were 375 prospective pilgrims specifically for the elderly.

"The implementation is in accordance with the national format of the process, or stages of this vaccination, we divide it into four table zones, zone one for registration, zone two for screening, then zone three for the injection process and zone four for observation," he said.

However, he said, the examination in zone two required an examination of other health conditions specifically, considering that these elderly people need to have a score related to vulnerability and an assessment of how strong the elderly are physically in carrying out their daily activities.

"And after the injection is complete, direct observation to zone four, there we monitor for 30 minutes whether there is a KIPI (post-immunization follow-up), especially serious or not," he said.

He said he hoped that the vaccination of prospective elderly pilgrims could become a momentum for local governments to carry out vaccination with the priority of the elderly entirely.

Meanwhile, the Regent of Bantul Abdul Halim Muslih, on the sidelines of reviewing the implementation of vaccination, said that elderly pilgrims who would soon be dispatched to the Holy Land of Mecca this year needed to be vaccinated so that their immunity would increase and be better.

"Moreover, this pilgrimage will gather a lot of people in Mecca and Medina, so immunity needs to be increased by means of vaccination. There are nearly 400 elderly pilgrims from Bantul we vaccinate, today 200 people, tomorrow 200 people. So there are 400 of our 927 people. vaccines through vaccinating the elderly, "he said.