The Minister of Health’s Kick to Prepare for a Pandemic to Become Endemic

Jakarta –

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin, has a number of strategies to control COVID-19 from pandemic to endemic and transform the health industry.

To control COVID-19 from a pandemic to endemic is one way to reduce the rate of transmission. However, Budi emphasized that vaccination is not the only strategy. There are some that are no less important.

“There are four, 3 of which are strategies, and one strategy is tight, including nursing at the hospital, which is important in front of detection. Now, vaccination is one of them not the only strategy,” he explained in a virtual Wealth Wisdom 2021 event, Saturday ( 18/9/2021).

Budi said the most important thing is the application of 3 M, wearing masks, washing hands and maintaining distance. Then detect with 3 T, Testing, Tracing and Treatment.

“For example 3M if we wear masks, it will reduce the transmission rate by 95%. Why do we have to test, trace and treat, because we test quickly, we know who has been infected, we quickly know who is infected, we isolate quickly, reduce the transmission rate, ” he said.

However, vaccination is also important to make human antibodies ready for exposure to the virus. So, said Budi, if exposed, it can reduce the duration of healing, for example from 14 days to only 5.4, or just 3 days.

Budi continued, to turn a pandemic into an endemic is not something easy. He revealed that in the history of pandemics nothing was finished quickly.

“Humanity has experienced pandemics many times. I see the history of the Black Death, tens of millions died, then in the world war there was the Spanish Flu, then there was Polio, Smallpox. The fastest is 5 years, polio may be hundreds of years and still there is not finished yet- finished,” he said.

In the future, Budi was ordered by President Joko Widodo to transform the health industry after the pandemic. Budi has prepared 6 frameworks. First, about primary care or primary health care.

“Because we feel that the most important thing is that it is much more effective, cheaper and more comfortable than the second transformation, namely second re-care.” he continued.

Second re-care is a transformation of how referral services are made to hospitals. The third framework of the health security system. Fourth, the health payment system.

“Fifth, the transformation of health resources such as people, especially doctors. Lastly, the transformation of health technology information,” he concluded.

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