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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – A number of DPR members become volunteers Nusantara vaccines initiated by former Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto at the Army Central Hospital (RSPAD) Gatot Soebroto, Jakarta, Wednesday (14/4/2021).

In response to this, the Head of the Food and Drug Administration (BPOM) Penny Lukito said this had nothing to do with the BPOM process to make the vaccine mass-produced.

“What is clear is that (DPR members become Nusantara vaccine volunteers) not in relation to BPOM to become products that can be mass-produced,” said Penny when met at the BPOM office, Jalan Percetakan Negara, Jakarta, Wednesday.

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Penny said that the Nusantara vaccine was carried out in a health care facility (Fasyankes) so that it was the responsibility of the doctor who carried it out.

He hopes that what the DPR members have done will not make the public confused about the existence of the vaccine.

“So yes, BPOM has delivered (the results of phase one clinical trials), it returns to each party. Just hopefully, the impact on society should not be confused and so on and people must be smart to be able to assess and choose,” he said.

“The public needs to know that it is not a clinical trial for registration into a vaccine that will be mass produced to be registered at BPOM, it is not,” he said.

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Previously it was reported that a number of DPR members and DPR leaders volunteered for the Nusantara vaccine at the Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital, Jakarta.

Deputy Speaker of the DPR, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, is one of the volunteers for the Phase II clinical trial Nusantara Vaccine the.

He said, as a clinical trial volunteer, today his blood sample has been taken by the Vaksin Nusantara research team to be processed for the next week.

“In the next seven days, the processed blood that was taken today will be injected again, to be vaccinated against those whose blood has been drawn. So the span of seven to eight days, the blood that has been taken is then processed and then put back into our bodies. , “said Dasco, Wednesday.

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The Chairman of the DPP Gerindra Party believes that Nusantara Vaccines can increase the wealth of the Covid-19 vaccines in Indonesia.

According to him, the vaccine which was initiated by former Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto can also help the vaccination program being promoted by the government.

“Moreover, coupled with vaccine embargoes from vaccine-producing countries, this can also more or less help government vaccination programs. archipelago vaccines This needs government assistance to reduce the scarcity of vaccines due to the embargo, “he explained.

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