Jakarta – Internist and expert on tropical and infectious illness from the state-run Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Healthcare Facility (RSCM), Dr. Robert Sinto SpPD, K-PTI, revealed that the federal government is prioritizing the provision of monkeypox (Mpox) vaccines to susceptible groups.
” The federal government is presently preparing a top priority scale for groups that will get access to the monkeypox vaccine,” he stated at an online talk show with the Jakarta Health Service on Thursday.
The top priority scale intends to ensure that the limited variety of vaccines can be utilized optimally for people who are in requirement, he said.
Access to the monkeypox vaccines will not be as simple as for the COVID-19 vaccine, which was offered to all levels of society without a priority scale, he included.
The choice to limit access to the monkeypox vaccine was taken because there are still numerous ways that individuals can avoid contracting monkeypox besides getting immunized.
” We can also avoid infection without being given a vaccine. There are lots of steps that we can take,” according to him.
One of the prevention measures is practicing clean and healthy living behavior and preventing close contact and sexual relations with monkeypox patients, he added.
” We need to perform such preventive steps even if the federal government does not offer the vaccines,” he continued.
Earlier, the Indonesian Health Ministry reported the discovery of a fresh monkeypox case in Jakarta on October 14, 2023.
The patient was validated to have actually been exposed to monkeypox after a series of examinations. The client resides in Jakarta and has no history of travel abroad or out of town.
With the discovery of the new case, the variety of cases of monkeypox discovered in Indonesia has reached 2 The very first case was found on August 20, 2022.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), monkeypox is a contagious disease caused by the monkeypox virus. It can trigger a painful rash, bigger lymph nodes, and fever.
In general, the variety of confirmed cases of monkeypox worldwide has actually reached 90,618, with an overall of 517 deaths reported from 115 nations.
The United States is the nation that has reported the greatest variety of cases, while China, Thailand, and Japan have actually controlled in terms of the cases reported in Asia.
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