VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

The Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Budi Gunadi Sadikin asked all levels of health to prioritize the search for Tuberculosis (TBC) sufferers. The government targets 90 percent of the alleged 824,000 cases in Indonesia to be detected by 2024.

"I ask that in 2024 90 percent must have been detected by name by address. We now want a good and correct surveillance strategy," said Minister of Health Budi in his virtual speech at the 4th Indonesia Tuberculosis - International Meeting (INA - TIME) 2022 in Bali, Friday (9/9/2022).

Menkes Budi said that his party had made a new health protocol, in collaboration with various professional associations and organizations. This includes encouraging Global Fund funds to be realized more quickly.

“The principle of infectious diseases is that we have to know where they are. We have to save it, it is the first and most priority task,” said the Minister of Health.

Furthermore, as an effort to prevent and treat, it must be faster to find out the type of variant of TB bacteria that attacks a person. This can be done with genome sequencing tools that are continuously being developed.

In the near future, a mobile genome sequencing pilot project will be implemented. Currently, a new genome sequencing is available the size of a mobile phone.

So that the detection of bacterial variants can be done quickly, and the patient can be immediately given the right drug. "Thus we can give the treatment package that really suits the patient," said Minister of Health Budi. (RRI)