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JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin said patients suffering from critical diseases are allowed to consume sirop or liquid drugs. However, on condition that with a doctor's prescription. "There are some medicines that are indeed sirop in nature but are needed to cure critical diseases such as epilepsy and so on. If this is prohibited, children can suffer or die because of other diseases," said the Minister of Health at the Bogor Palace, West Java (West Java), quoted from Antara, Monday, October 24. Therefore, Budi allows patients with critical diseases to take sirop drugs as long as the prescription is from the doctor. The decision was also taken after the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) conducted consultations with the Indonesian Pediatrician Association (IDAI) and the Indonesian Pharmacists Association. "For sirop medicines that are useful for dealing with critical diseases we allow, but must use doctor prescriptions," he said.

The Ministry of Health and the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) previously temporarily banned the circulation of sirop drugs for children following cases of acute kidney disorders in children.

The sirop drug is prohibited because it is suspected that it contains cypress ethylene glycol (EG) compounds and dietilen glycol (DEG) which cause acute kidney failure in children.

The Ministry of Health also instructed all health workers in health care facilities not to temporarily predetermine drugs in the form of liquid or sirop preparations until there is an official announcement from the Government.

As of Monday, the Ministry of Health explained that there had been 245 cases of atypical progressive acute kidney disorder (Acute Kidney Injury/AKI) in 26 provinces in Indonesia with a death rate of 57.6 percent detected by his party.

There are eight provinces whose accumulated cases reached up to 80 percent of the total national findings, namely DKI Jakarta, West Java, Aceh, East Java, West Sumatra, Bali, Banten, and North Sumatra.

The fatality rate caused the death of 245 cases reached 141 cases or 57.6 percent.


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