Tangerang Balaraja Hospital Prepare 3 Child Specialist Doctors Handling Acute Kidular Disorders

Public Relations of Balaraja Hospital dr. Aang Sunarto. (ANTARA)

The manager of the Balaraja Regional General Hospital (RSUD) in Tangerang Regency, Banten Province, has alerted doctors to handle cases of acute kidney disorders in children. "We have currently prepared three pediatricians," said Public Relations of Balaraja Hospital, dr. Aang Sunarto in Tangerang, Antara, Wednesday, November 2. The Ministry of Health and the Tangerang District Health Office have instructed all health care facilities and doctors to increase awareness of an increase in cases of acute progressive kidney disorders in children. The hospital, he continued, has prepared management for handling pediatric patients with acute kidney disorders and specialist doctors in charge of treating patients with acute kidney disorders. In addition, the hospital prepares special rooms and supporting equipment for handling pediatric patients with acute kidney disorders. "We prepare rooms for acute kidney patients, it's just for the condition of the special hemodialization room for our children to be referred to the Jakarta RSCM," he said. The Balaraja Hospital manager also carries out government regulations regarding the use of drug preparations in the form of sirop. "Since there was an instruction from the Ministry of Health regarding restrictions on the use of sirop drugs, we immediately stopped using them. So for now we are using puyer drugs, except for certain drugs that do not contain ethilen glycol," said Aang. According to him, during the period from September to October 2022, the Balaraja Hospital treated four pediatric patients who were suspected of having acute kidney problems. "Everyone has comorbidities, that's why this is still a suspect (allegedly). That's why now we report it to the Jakarta RSCM for the research stage, is this really a typical acute kidney or not," he said. According to him, children who are suspected of having acute kidney problems consist of three men and one woman and all of them are under 15 years old. "Some are nine months to 14 years old. And once again this kidney failure is not necessarily caused by the cause which is currently busy, namely because of sirop drugs," he said.