BandungKita.id, CIMAHI – The Cimahi City Health Office (Dinkes) urges the public to remain vigilant about chikungunya disease. Apart from of course Dangue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) and Covid-19.
Most recently, there are two residents from RW 16, Citeureup Village, North Cimahi District, Cimahi City who are suspected of suffering from chikungunya. This is because both of them feel pain in the joints, weakness to muscle pain, which is a symptom of chikungunya.
“The second one is suspected because the symptoms led and the results of the investigation were found to be larvae,” said the Head of the Controlling Disease Control and Eradication Section at the Cimahi City Health Office, Romi Abdurakhman through his staff, Eka Febriana, Wednesday (12/11/2020).
For certainty of exposure to chikungunya, he explained, it must go through a laboratory test. However, for the time being this cannot be done considering that the existing laboratories are focused on testing Covid-19 samples.
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Officers, he said, had already carried out fogging around the suspect’s or suspeck’s residence. Fogging is done as an effort to cut the transmission of chikungunya, the transmission medium through mosquitoes, which is the same as DHF.
“But still have to be treated and treated until healed. We’ve also done fogging, “he said.
Early in the year, said Eka, his party sent samples of 20 people suspected of suffering from chikungunya. The result is that there are about 10 more who were confirmed positive suffering from a disease that is rarely found in Cimahi City.
“Alhamdulillah, until now no one has died because of chikungunya. Bahanyanya interference in the joints, difficulty moving. If in Cimahi it is rare, not every year, “he explained.
