Ministry Of Health: Indonesia It's High: Natural KLB Polio
JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) revealed that there are 30 provinces in the country that are prone to entering the criteria for extraordinary incidents (KLB) in polio. One of the provinces is Aceh.
"If you look at 30 provinces and 415 regencies/cities, all of them are included in the high risk criteria for low polio coverage (immunation, red). So, Indonesia is high in risk for the occurrence of Polio KLB," said Director General of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) Maxi Rein Rondonuwu in a press conference broadcast on the Indonesian Ministry of Health's YouTube, Saturday, November 19.
Maxi then explained that polio cases have also been found in Aceh. He said, a seven-year-old child two months old experienced symptoms of paralysis in Pidie Regency.
After being visited by officers from the Ministry of Health, it was discovered that the child began to get sick on October 6. "Then he felt sick, normal, there was heat and flu. The initial symptoms," said Maxi.
Furthermore, the child felt paralyzed onset symptoms on the leg on October 9. After this incident, Maxi said the child was taken to the TCD Sigil Hospital on October 18.
"Then on October 21-22, the pediatrician suspected that he was polio and two specimens were taken which were sent to the province and to Jakarta," he explained.
Next, after the sample was tested, it was found that the child was positive for type two polio on November 10. The examination was carried out using the Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) method.
Maxi detailed that the child was subjected to shrinkage in the thigh and calf muscles. In addition, he also never got immunized.
"It has no history of immunization and has no history of travel or contact with travelers," he said.
Even so, the child is now recovering. Maxi revealed that the child was able to walk even though he was tenuous.
"It's just that he doesn't have any medicine, he's just going to be physiotherapy to maintain his muscle mass," concluded Maxi.