The National Indonesia Army Was Ready Confront Pandemic

Rabu, 19 2008 00:01 WIB

The potential for bird flu became the pandemic it was thought as the serious threat by various sides. Preparations to anticipate the threat needed the involvement of the sector passage, including the military side. As the form of preparations faced this pandemic the health side of the Troops of Nasional Indonesia Army (TNI AD) held the seminar and workshop featured preparations and Readiness for Kesehatan TNI AD Menghadapi Pandemi Influenza in Jakarta, on November 8-10 2008 as an editorial. "The activity was held with the aim so that the problem" of the "influenza pandemic could be socialised in all the health rank TNI AD as well as to compare the perception and the action that will be carried out if this matter happened," said the Head of the Centre of the TNI Health of AD MajGen TNI Dr Heridadi in the agenda that became part of the series of the warning HUT ke-63 Health AD above-mentioned.

Apart from contain ing knowledge about the pandemic, in the seminar that was attended by 200 participants from the health environment TNI AD all of Indonesia same was held by the simulation if the bird flu pandemic happened. The "TNI involvement in kesiagaan faced this pandemic will mobilise all the available infrastructure until the territory was isolated from the Regional Military Command level to the level regional military command unit with the scale" of the "priority and the TNI capacity," stressed Heridadi.

In the opportunity that was the same the Head of the Pusat Hospital of the Army (RSPAD) Gatot Soebroto Briggen TNI Supriyantoro stated that RSPAD Gatot Soebroto was ready to accept reconciliation of the bird flu patient if the reconciliation hospital could not still accommodate the bird flu patient. Till at this time Indonesia was still becoming the country with the number of cases of most bird flu in the world.

Globally, the Organisation data of the Health of the World (WHO) mentioned, since 2003 to the end of October 2008, the case of bird flu to humankind all over the world totalling 387 cases with 245 deaths. In Indonesia, the number of cases of bird flu achieved 137 cases with 112 deaths. If observing his characteristics, bird flu was considered as the illness that had the potential to become the pandemic. It is not surprising that this illness became attention of the world. The history recorded that an influenza pandemic happened in the age 20, was preceeded by Spanish Flu in 1918 that was caused by the A virus of type flu (H1N1) with the death 40-50 million. Afterwards followed Asian Flu in 1957 that was caused by the A virus of type flu (H2N2) with the death 1-2 million souls. Finally was Hong Kongese Flu, happened in 1968 as a result of the A virus of type flu (H3N2) resulted in the death 700 thousand souls.