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Expert: Immunization Becomes an Investment for the Future of Children

Jakarta: Field Epidemiology Training Program Advisor (FETP) I Nyoman Kandun asserted immunization important to form the body’s resistance to fight disease. Preventing disease is better than cure.

“Immunization is an investment in the future for Indonesian children. Equipped with immunizations that protect them from infectious diseases, Indonesian children can grow up physically and mentally healthy. That way Indonesian children can grow up healthy and smart, ”said Nyoman as quoted from the Covid19.go.id website, Wednesday, November 18, 2020.

According to him, immunization is a specific and cost effective public health intervention. The government already has experience in the 1995 National Immunization Week (PIN) program to eradicate the polio virus.


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“Giving vaccine oral polio in 1995-1997 was given to anyone, regardless of whether someone had been given the polio vaccine regularly or not. For those who have received routine polio immunization, then giving back the polio vaccine will strengthen their immune system. Those who have not received the polio vaccine can be said to have received basic immunization, “he explained.

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He said that the public needs to know the stages of handling infectious diseases, namely controlling, eliminating and eradicating them. Controlling means reducing the incidence of infectious diseases, while eliminating means pressing to very low numbers.

“To eradicate means, in addition to reducing transmission to zero, the virus can also be lost. For example, smallpox, where there is no more smallpox virus, can be said to be eradicating smallpox,” said Nyoman.

Routine polio immunization coverage since 1995 had decreased due to the impact of the multidimensional crisis in the 1998-2002 period. In 2002, only then did the government issue another PIN. In 2005 the wild polio virus was identified in Cidahu, Sukabumi, West Java.

“Handling the polio virus in Cidahu has actually been carried out in a fast action known as a sub PIN so that the wild polio virus that enters Cidahu does not spread. But the virus spreads to Sumatra and other areas, ”said Nyoman.

The government then determined the wild polio virus as an extraordinary event (KLB) and returned to implementing the PIN. As a result, polio was successfully eradicated again in 2006. In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) labeled polio-free for Indonesia.

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