Continuous participation of people and institutions is one of Indonesia’s six national strategies for dengue mitigation for the 2021–2025 period, he informed during a virtual event here.
The other strategies involve bolstering effective, safe, and continuous vector management; improving access and quality of dengue treatment; bolstering comprehensive dengue surveillance; and responsive “extraordinary events” management.
They also cover the program management policy; government partnership and commitment strengthening; as well as study, research, and innovation development as the foundation for evidence-based program management and policies.
The development of a dengue vaccine can be one innovation that can protect people from dengue in the future, Rondonuwu noted.
Meanwhile, acting director for communicable disease prevention and handling, Tiffany Tiara Pakasi, said that preventive steps are included in the dengue mitigation acceleration strategy.
The preventive steps, which comprise the 3Ms (Drain, Close, Recycle), keeping larvae-eating fish, installing wire mesh screens on doors and ventilation, and putting larvicide in water reservoirs, are expected to help handle the disease.
Prevention can also be carried out through the development of dengue immunization, which, she said, she expects would immediately be broadly accessed by the people.
The government is currently striving to raise awareness on the importance of handling dengue, including by encouraging people's participation through the One House One Jumantik program.
A Jumantik is someone whose job is to monitor larvae around the house so that mosquito nests can immediately be eradicated.
On July 5, 2022, Deputy Minister of Health, Dante Saksono Harbuwono, had informed that, until June, the number of dengue fever cases in Indonesia had reached around 52 thousand.
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