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jpnn.com, JAKARTA – Immunization is very important to build body resistance against certain diseases which is part of efforts to prevent better than cure.
Immunization is a specific and cost effective public health intervention.
One of the massive immunization efforts that the government has carried out is the National Immunization Week (PIN) program which was started in 1995. The PIN at that time was a program to eradicate the polio virus.
“The oral polio vaccine 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, “said dr. I Nyoman Kandun MPH, Field Epidemiology Training Program Advisor in a discussion on Learning from the Success of the Polio PIN, organized by the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPCPEN). , Tuesday (17/11).
The PIN was aimed at eradicating polio in Indonesia. The community needs to know the stages of handling infectious diseases, namely controlling, eliminating and eradicating.
“Controlling is reducing the incidence of infectious diseases. Meanwhile, eliminating is pressing to a very low number, it can be up to zero, but the virus does not disappear. Eradicating means that in addition to reducing transmission to zero, the virus can also be eliminated. For example, smallpox, where there is no more smallpox virus, so we can say that it is eradicating smallpox, “explained Dr. Nyoman.
“Immunization through vaccines is proven to be the most effective public health approach. In other words it has also been proven that without vaccines and human immunization programs cannot win the war against the virus, “said Dr. Jane Soepardi, immunization and surveillance consultant for the CDC’s Atlanta office of disease prevention and control agency in Indonesia.
The government then set it as KLB and returned to running the PIN.
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