Pandemic To Endemic Transition, PKS Politicians In DPR Urge Government To Improve Health System In Indonesia

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JAKARTA - Member of the House of Representatives Commission IX, Netty Prasetiyani, responded to the government's plan which has begun to prepare for the transition process from pandemic to endemic.

This step is taken because it is believed that COVID-19 will not disappear in the near future, so that people will live side by side with the corona virus.

"The transition from a pandemic to an endemic has consequences on the government's readiness to carry out transformation," said Netty to reporters, Monday, September 20.

During this transition period, Netty encouraged the government to improve the health system in the country. Because reflecting on the spike in COVID-19 cases in June to July 2021, the health system in Indonesia was considered overwhelmed or collapsed in the face of the reality of the outbreak.

"The experience of dealing with a pandemic tsunami around June-July has proven that our health service system and capacity are overwhelmed," said Netty.

Before setting the pandemic to be endemic, the PKS politician viewed that the government was obliged to prepare the facilities and infrastructure (sarpras) for health facilities very well. Starting from the budget, the availability of health workers, laboratory workers, the availability of drugs, medical devices, oxygen, to improving the referral system.

"So, before establishing an endemic, the government must prepare health facilities, human resources for health workers (nakes), pharmacists, lab staff, availability of drugs, medical devices (alkes), oxygen, improvement of the National Health Insurance (JKN) system, referrals, budget support. , and the ability of puskesmas as first-level health facilities (FKTP) to carry out promotive and preventive efforts," said the West Java legislator.

Previously, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said the government was preparing a number of strategies to control COVID-19 from a pandemic to endemic and transforming the health industry. However, according to him, vaccination is not the only strategy to reduce the rate of transmission.

"There are four, 3 of them are strategic in nature, and one strategy is tight, including nursing at the hospital, which is important in front of detection. Now, vaccination is one of them not the only strategy," said Budi at the Wealth Wisdom 2021 event virtually, Saturday, 18 September.

Budi reminded again, that the most important thing is the application of 3 M, wearing masks, washing hands and maintaining distance. Then detect with 3 T, Testing, Tracing and Treatment.

"For example 3M, if we wear masks, it will reduce the transmission rate by 95 percent. Why do we have to do testing, tracing and treatment, because we test quickly, we know who has been infected, we quickly know who is infected, we isolate quickly, reduce the transmission rate," " he said.