Pariaman Health Office Handles A Case Of Swollen Breasts After Vaccination

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PARIAMAN - The City Government (Pemkot) of Pariaman, West Sumatra, is dealing with the case of a resident of Bato Village's right breast, with the initials APS (17) which swelled after about two hours of being vaccinated against COVID-19.

"Now this APS is under our monitoring, it has been given medicine and on August 30, 2021, it will be under control again", said Head of the Pariaman City Health Service, Nazifah, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, August 25.

The teenager underwent a COVID-19 vaccination at a sub-health center in the local area on Saturday, August 21. After two hours later her breasts swelled and felt excruciating pain.

Because of what happened to him, he was referred to the Sadikin Hospital, on Monday, August 23, and was treated by a surgeon.

The teenager's condition is now starting to improve, but his party has not been able to determine the exact cause of why it happened and is currently waiting for a doctor's statement.

His party bears all costs incurred because the incident occurred after the vaccination even though the incident occurred two hours later.

"After Immunization Follow-up Incidents (AEFI) were seen for 30 minutes after being vaccinated, that's why when we were vaccinated we were asked to wait in the room but it had already passed 30 minutes", he said.

In addition to the teenager, his party also received information that there was one other resident who experienced the same symptoms, but the investigation was still being carried out.

Since the COVID-19 vaccination was held in Pariaman City, his party has not found severe AEFIs or usually just aches and fever.

Meanwhile, APS's mother, Marleni, said that she allowed her child to take the COVID-19 vaccination because of the requirements for studying at one of the universities she would attend next month.

"After being vaccinated, two hours after that the right breast swelled", she said.

At that time her daughter was moaning in pain so she called the number listed on his child's vaccine letter and he was asked to give paracetamol and compress it.

After that, because her daughter's illness did not go away, she immediately went to the midwife and was given medicine.

"Because there are no doctors on Saturday and Sunday, then on Monday I will take them to the Sadikin Hospital", she said

Currently, the pain suffered by the teenager has started to subside while taking the medicine given by the doctor while the swelling has begun to decrease, but now a lump appears.

Bato Village Head Syafrial Syam said his party was aware of the incident this morning and immediately searched the house and saw its condition.

"We have seen the condition of one (APS), while the other may be (administratively) a resident of Bato but he lives in another area", he said.

He said that his party was waiting for the results of the doctor's examination regarding the condition of the resident, whether it was due to a vaccine or a congenital disease.

He did invite residents to vaccinate against COVID-19 and his party is ready to accompany him to the vaccination location so that the village government can act quickly when something unexpected happens.

"However, we didn't know APS was vaccinated because they didn't report it", he said.