TNI Prepares 30 Thousand Trackers To Support COVID-19 Testing, Tracing And Treatment

Head of the TNI Information Center Major General TNI Prantara Santosa/ANTARA

JAKARTA - Head of the TNI Information Center Major General TNI Prantara Santosa said the TNI also supports the strengthening of testing, tracking, and maintenance or testing, tracing, and treatment (3T) by preparing more than 30,000 tracking personnel.

"For testing activities, the TNI Health Center prepares swab officers, both from the TNI Headquarters health officers and health officers from the matrix and collaborates with health officers, both from the ranks of the Ministry of Health and the Health Office in their respective regions. a military hospital," said Prantara as quoted by Antara, Monday, July 12.

Prantara explained, to strengthen tracking, the TNI Health Center in the Java-Bali region has prepared more than 30,000 personnel consisting of babinsa, babinpotmar, and babinpotdirga, who are trained and prepared to assist micro PPKM tracing in their village areas.

For treatment, the TNI collaborates with hospitals from the TNI ranks from the land, sea, and air dimensions. In the face of the surge in COVID-19 cases, the TNI has also prepared to increase the capacity of field hospitals in the form of adding 1,870 ICU beds and isolation and increasing other facilities.

Regarding the vaccination program, the TNI has received an allocation of 200,000 vaccinations per day to accelerate the achievement of the target of one million vaccines per day.

Related to this, the TNI added 176 personnel to accelerate vaccination in Jabodetabek and recruited 3,000 medical and non-medical volunteers.

"This recruitment program is a direct order from the TNI Commander Marshal TNI Hadi Tjahjanto who targets DKI Jakarta and its surroundings before August 17, 2021, herd immunity must reach above 70 percent for ages 12 years and over," he said.