Discussing Vaccine Stock With Luhut, Ridwan Kamil Asks For 15 Million Doses Every Month

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - West Java Governor M Ridwan Kamil asked the central government to distribute an average of 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine every month. So that communal immunity or herd immunity in West Java can be realized by the end of 2021.

"We need 15 million doses per month until December 2021. A total of 76 million doses for 37 million targets can be implemented," said Ridwan Kamil while attending a video conference on the COVID-19 Vaccine Stock Audit Audit with the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. from the Pakuan Building, Bandung City, reported by Antara, Tuesday, August 10.

Besides, Kang Emil proposed a few things. The proposal aims to optimize the implementation and data collection of COVID-19 vaccinations. The first proposal is regarding COVID-19 vaccine data distributed by the central government.

In principle, the West Java Provincial Government appreciates stakeholders who help by taking the initiative to hold vaccine centers in districts/cities. However, the data needs to be further refined so that the target groups are recorded in the provinces.

The Governor requested that data from vaccine centers held at the initiative of stakeholders be reported also by the initiating committee or institution through the SMILE (Immunization Monitoring System and Electronic Logistics) application.

SMILE is an integrated application that is used to monitor in real time the logistics of the vaccine cold chain and its storage at all points of vaccine providers from the province to the puskesmas and hospital levels.

"So that it is easy for data clarity, regardless of the type of vaccine, if you can pass through the province so that if you report back to the Minister of Health, we can directly account for the data," he said. SMILE data.

"Some TNI/Polri activities are still in the process of reporting SMILE so that vaccination records in the province cannot be said to be one hundred percent accurate. There are data that have been released but some have not been reported. For that we hope all can make better use of SMILE," he said.

Kang Emil also asked for clarity on data related to people who were injected with the vaccine, not where they came from. For example, there are non-Jabar residents who live and are injected with the COVID-19 vaccine in the city of Bandung.

"Then there are also people who have a West Java ID card, but domiciled in another province. My question is calculated as a vaccine for the area but actually West Java residents. Do not let misdata occur in the field," said Kang Emil.

"West Java also injects residents of non-West Java ID cards because vaccines are no longer limited by ID cards. From BPS data there are 3 million non-West Java people whose domicile is in West Java but the vaccine is in West Java," he added.

Kang Emil's last suggestion was to ask that the health workers at the puskesmas not be borrowed for the vaccination center activities. Because according to him, this makes the performance of health workers at the primary health center to inject vaccines decline.

"Finally, this puskesmas does an extraordinary job, but it is often held back by the vaccine center. Its main routine tasks end up being a bit disrupted because human resources are often borrowed for the vaccine center," he said.

"So the target seems to be underperforming even though it is on assignment. My input is if there are non-routine activities that are vaccine centers, if possible, the human resources should not be taken from the puskesmas," he said.