Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Indonesia: The "Xinhua" Reporter Could Be In Bali Suspected By Flu H1N1

Monday, 04 Mei 2009

Jakarta – the sample Inspection of the reporter's blood Xinhua, Li Xiau Yu, that could be suspected of being affected by Mexican flu, was stated normal. In the meantime, the inspection wiped off the throat still continued to take place.

Li Xiau Yu was at this time being assigned to cover the meeting of International Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Denpasar, Bali.

"Results of the sample inspection of the reporter's blood showed that is not found H1N1 and the other infection in himself. However, the inspection wiped off the throat was not yet finished," explained the Head of the Centre of the Control of the Crisis (PPK) the Department of the Health, Dr Rustam S Pakaya in Bali, when being contacted by SH, on Monday (4/5).

According to Pakaya, the health of this patient has this morning improved and was permitted covered the ADB session although continue to in the supervision of the medical team of the Department of the Health. The embassy's China side also confirmed that Li Xiau Yu was in Indonesia during the past two weeks. However, the China government agreed followed the handling procedure of the pandemic that has been determined by Indonesia.

He also explained that the Department of Health determined the operational standard of the procedure (SOP) the handling H1N1 in connection with the arrival of international guests in this ADB meeting. Although not yet having the case of Mexican flu, Indonesia was ready to face the possibility of the entry of Mexican flu through all the international visitors through the airport and the international port.

The procedure continue to or protap that was put into effect for the foreign guest of participants in the ADB meeting in Bali and World Ocean Conference (WOC) in Manado will be treated was the same as the other foreigner who just arrived in Indonesia. "All the aircraft were from the country infected will be sprayed. Passengers were afterwards checked through pemindai the temperature of the body. If there is one that is hot his body 38 levels will more be given tamiflu in quarantine space," he explained.

The person who was suspected, was not carried to the hospital in the city, but was carried by the ambulance to isolation space in the field hospital that in-provided. "We took care to do not enter the Denpasar City and Manado so that was avoided from the possibility of the spread to the officia" of the health of the hospital," continued Pakaya.


Till at this time, was not yet protap the Health Body of the World (WHO) in connection with repatriation of the patient. "However, was severed by us so that if positive H1N1, the patient from isolation space in the field hospital will be returned by us back to the place of his origin," he said again.

Indonesia Alert
Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari reiterated that although Mexican flu was not as cruel as bird flu like that was worried by WHO, Indonesia put the supervision tightly towards the possibility of the entry of this virus to Indonesia into effect. "Medicine, the laboratory, the health power all of them were ready. The people must also be ready by activating all the alert villages," he stressed, on Sunday (3/4) in Jakarta.
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