Jakarta – The Jakarta Health Office introduced a two-dose polio immunization program for infants on December 1, 2022.
Under the program, the very first injection will be offered when the babies are 4 months old, while the second one will be administered when the infants are 9 months old.
” Therefore, polio immunization is not only provided when the baby is 4 months old, however is offered one more time at the age of nine months,” head of the monitoring, public health, and immunization area of the Jakarta Health Office Ngabila Salama said here on Friday.
Jakarta has started the two-dose polio immunization program with Banten and West Java, she added.
The execution of the two-dose polio immunization remains in accordance with the Decree of the Director General of Disease Avoidance and Control of the Ministry of Health Number HK.0202/ C/4834/2022 worrying technical standards for the execution of the 2nd dose suspended poliovirus vaccine (IPV2) immunization program on October 5, 2022.
After Jakarta, Banten, and West Java, the Ministry of Health is scheduled to introduce the program simultaneously throughout the nation, beginning early 2023.
On the other hand, the drip polio immunization, or bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV), will be given four times at the age of one, two, three, and four months, she notified.
She explained that the bOPV offers security versus type one and type 2 polio. The IPV, which is to be administered when a baby is four and 9 months old, supplies security versus type one, 2, and 3 polio.
She revealed the hope that, through immunization, kids can prevent getting contaminated with numerous infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis (TB), Liver disease B, polio, measles, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and pneumonia.
The Jakarta federal government is intensively carrying out immunizations through the National Child Immunization Month (BIAN) program for kids aged 9 months to 59 months.
The vaccines supplied under the BIAN program are the measles-rubella vaccine, polio vaccine (either in the kind of injection or drops), and pentavalent vaccine.
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