Semarang, Beritasatu.com – The epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is still a special concern amid the increasing news about Covid-19 in Semarang City that continues to grow.
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Semarang City Health Office (Dinkes) noted that up to June 23, 2020, there were 262 cases and 3 deaths. With details in January 25 cases and 1 died.
In February, there were 60 cases with 1 death. In March there were 71 cases with no deaths. In April there were 56 cases and 1 died.
Whereas in May there were 32 cases and no one died. From 1 June 2020 to 23 June 2020 at 07.30 there were 18 cases with no deaths.
This figure actually decreased when compared with the number of events last year in the same month. In 2019, the Semarang City Health Office recorded 60 cases with no death cases. February there were 80 cases with 4 cases died.
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In March, 88 cases with 4 cases died. In April there were 80 cases with 2 cases died. In May there were 67 cases with no deaths and in June there were 61 cases of 1 case died.
“Semarang City Health Office has made various efforts to continue to suppress the incidence of DHF, one of which is by providing epidemiological personnel in all Puskesmas,” said Head of Semarang City Health Office, Abdul Hakam, in Semarang, Sunday (6/28/2020).
In addition, continued Abdul Hakam, capacity building for Gasurkes (Health Surveillance Officers), increasing Sicentik program (students looking for larvae) and One Home One Jumantik, as well as working across sectors to routinely hold PJN (Mosquito larvae Monitoring) simultaneously once a week .
“Besides that, the Semarang City Health Office has innovated by creating an integrated system called Tunggal Dara (United to Cope with Dengue Fever),” Abdul Hakam said.
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According to Abdul Hakam, Tunggal Dara is a cross-sectoral information system that is a solution for the handling of DHF that is integrated by reporting and analyzing and disseminating information online to officers, stakeholders and the public.
He will continue to make efforts to improve education, PJN simultaneously, Sicentik and the One Friday One Home Movement (GSRSJ) to reduce the number of dengue sufferers in the city of Semarang.
“But with the Covid-19 pandemic and an appeal for physical distancing as well as carrying out activities inside the house, then the PJN activities are simultaneously replaced by PJN activities independently or the activities of the One Friday One Home Movement (GSRSJ). Because as long as there are mosquitoes and larvae, there are still dengue sufferers. “It is only necessary to suppress the spread, prevention and management of cases so as not to cause even more deaths,” he explained.
According to Abdul Hakam, Tunggal Dara represented the City of Semarang in the 2020 Public Service Innovation Competition (KIPP) and entered the Top 99 Public Service Innovations in 2020.
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