Ask BRIN Teliti To Fail Accounting For Acute Phones, DPR: Don't Only Drug Import Initiatives With The State Budget

JAKARTA - The DPR asked the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) to immediately examine the cause of acute kidney failure whose death rate reached 57.5 percent.

The DPR assesses that this acute kidney failure case should not be underestimated, the handling of which is only by importing drugs to overcome it using the state budget.

"This is a mysterious disease and should not be treated sporadically and mediocrely. BRIN, which has the capacity to carry out health research, must immediately take this strategic initiative," said a member of Commission VII DPR, Mulyanto, Tuesday, October 25.

"Don't let it drag on, especially if what appears is an initiative to import drugs at the expense of the state budget," he continued.

The Banten electoral district PKS legislator hopes that the government will not repeat the same mistakes when handling the initial COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. At that time, the government was considered slow in dealing with it, and instead made it a field of health business.

"We must not repeat previous mistakes in dealing with COVID-19, which is suspected to be a PCR business event and a vaccine business," said Mulyanto.

Therefore, the PKS politician asked the government not to solve this problem with a drug business or health business approach.

Mulyanto said, in a limited state budget condition, the government must also be scientific based in handling health cases as has happened recently. Don't do anything, there are already many plans to import drugs with the state budget.

"BRIN must be encouraged optimally to research this matter accurately, answering the causes and proposals for solutions. This is an extraordinary case, which needs to be approached with great seriousness," said Mulyanto. The drug was imported from Singapore and Australia.

"Indonesia received 10 vials of the drug Fomepizole from Singapore and 16 from Australia," said the Minister of Health, Sunday, October 23.

For the process, continued Budi, medicines will be taken directly from the two countries. "Today, hand-carryed, taken by plane, someone took it," he explained.

According to the Minister of Health, Fomepizole, which is intended to help recover patients with acute kidney disorders, is a rare drug. He also appreciated and thanked Singapore and Australia for the assistance.

Budi said the use of the anti-dotum drug type of Fomepizole was considered effective. Because, he said, the drug is considered to be able to prevent the severity of acute kidney disorders.

"This medicine is still rare, yes, we can be helped. I immediately called the health minister of Singapore and Australia," said the Minister of Health.