Total Target 477, Ministry Of Health Has Vaccinated 157 People At Risk Of Exposure To Monkeypox

Monkeypox or monkeypox cases. (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) has vaccinated 157 people who are at risk of being exposed to monkeypox or monkeypox.

"The current vaccination achievement is 157 people, or 31.72 percent of the total target of 477 people. It has been running and is scheduled at four or five Puskesmas in DKI Jakarta," said Director General (Dirjen) of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) of the Indonesian Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) Maxi Rein Rondonuwu in a press conference that was attended online in Jakarta, Thursday.

Maxi said that all people who were included in the vaccine target were part of a group of male likes (NGOs). The group was chosen based on the consideration that all active cases came from mutual transmission or local transmission.

Furthermore, he said the vaccine target was an active person who had sex in the last two weeks. To assist the Ministry of Health in tracing or tracing, the Ministry of Health is collaborating with a number of non-governmental communities or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) observers of these risky groups.

"Of course working with NGOs which were initially related to HIV. This is key, because this NGO is better known as a key population," he said.

Maxi said that currently his party has prepared 1,000 doses of vaccine to be given to each target of two doses. The Ministry of Health has also coordinated with ASEAN to obtain 2,000 additional doses of vaccine.

However, this amount is not sufficient for the total dose needed, because the Ministry of Health and its experts have predicted an additional case that can reach 3,600 positive cases.

"Our calculation is that there are 3,600 (cases), I think if we multiply at least we need another 6,500 if we reduce it (which has been vaccinated). Farmalkes (Directorate General of Pharmacy and Medical Devices) is still working," he said.

For the common good, Maxi said that the openness of the NGO group to health workers was needed to trace this case, so that the handling of monkeypox would be maximized.

"We really need this positive group openness, if they are open, it will be very easy for us to do tracing," said Maxi.