If expanded, 20 Percent of Tangerang risk

JUMAT, 6 MARET 2009 | 06:04 WIB

Around 20 percent of the inhabitants in the Regency and the City of Tangerang were risky infected difficult flu if the plague until the bird flu virus spread in the area. For the year 2005-2009 already 26 residents in two territories that died because of bird flu. The impact assumption of the bird flu pandemic was in Tangerang revealed by the Head of the Pilot Project Pengendalian of Bird Flu and Menghadapi Pandemi Influenza Departemen Preparedness of the Simanjuntak Gindo Health in the seminar in the Le Dian Hotel, Serang, Banten, on Thursday (5/3).

According to him, would many impacts that were experienced if the bird flu pandemic in Tangerang happening. One of them, 20 percent or approximately 900,000 will from 4.5 million inhabitants of the Regency and the City of Tangerang suffer difficult flu. Moreover, was estimated in the period six months, as many as 300,000 inhabitants who were affected by bird flu will die.

The same condition will have an impact on the disturbance of the public's service, like the hospital, the community health centre, and police. Did not stop arrive in there, the bird flu pandemic will have an impact on the closing of the school, even the factory, that afterwards continued in the disturbance of the economic activity.

The other impact was the disturbance of the route outside-entered Indonesia remembered the Airport of Internasional Soekarno-Hatta was in the Tangerang territory. The possibility was worst was countries's other refusal to be stopped over in by the aircraft from Indonesia.

26 People Died

In the meantime, was based on the data that was assembled by the Kesehatan Banten Service, since 2005 was found by 29 cases of bird flu to humankind in the Regency and the Tangerang City. Moreover, 26 from 29 sufferers died after receiving the maintenance in the hospital.

The Dinas secretary of the Banten Dadang Health mentioned, the case of bird flu was the first time found during 2005. At that time six residents of the Regency and the Tangerang City terjangkit bird flu, five including dying.

One year afterwards, the number of residents that infected decreased to three people and all of them died. The number of cases again jumped during 2007, namely as many as 10 cases, with the number of deaths of eight people. As for 2008 was found by nine positive inhabitants bird flu that all of them died.

Moreover, at the beginning of this 2009 has had one resident of the Tangerang Regency that died because positive bird flu. Apart from in Tangerang, Dinas Kesehatan Banten also recorded one case of bird flu to humankind in Cilegon. A resident Cilegon died after receiving the maintenance in a hospital in Jakarta during 2007.

In the meantime, the case of bird flu was to the poultry found in almost all the territories in Banten. However, was based on the survey of Agriculture and Livestock Breeding of the Service, the case of bird flu to the poultry often was found in the Valley, Pandeglang, Serang, and the Tangerang Regency. this year the government provided the fund as far as Rp 20 billion for the handling and the control of bird flu in Banten. This fund came from help of the government of the centre as well as the Budget of the Income and the Daerah Expenses (APBD) Banten. Especially for the Regency and the Tangerang City, the control of bird flu was carried directly out by the government of the centre co-operated with the United States and Singapore. (NTA)