Lampung, The Indonesia Post – A number of health workers in several outer islands in Lampung Province have carried out the COVID-19 vaccination without any obstacles.
“For Tabuan Island, we have five health workers and four of them have carried out the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination without any obstacles,” said the Secretary of the Tanggamus District Health Office, Taman Prasi when contacted from Bandarlampung, Thursday.
He said that the vaccination for the five health workers was carried out at the nearest health center.
“We did not bring the COVID-19 vaccine to the island to maintain the cold chain and anticipate post-immunization follow-up events, but the five health workers on the island headed ashore to receive the vaccine,” he said.
According to him, today four of the five health workers will receive the second dose of vaccination today. “A health worker cannot yet be vaccinated because of hypertension, but four other people if there is no storm today will carry out the second dose of vaccination, because all of these health workers immediately return to the island by boat,” he said.
He explained that apart from Tabuan Island, there are also a number of areas such as Way Nipah which have access which is quite difficult to reach.
“In Way Nipah, there are 8 villages that are quite difficult to access, and there are two supporting Puskesmas namely Kaurgading and Tirom Puskesmas with 11 health workers, and all health workers have carried out the first dose of vaccination,” he said.
According to him, although the road access constraints are quite difficult, the overall vaccination process for health workers to the outer islands or remote areas can be carried out well.
“Everything was done well without any obstacles or side effects,” he said again.
The Head of the Coastal District Health Office, Barat Tedi Zadmiko also said the same thing.
“On Pisang Island, a total of 33 health workers received the COVID-19 vaccination and the vaccination was carried out directly on the island, but there are some who have not implemented it due to several days of storms and there are health workers living across the island,” said Tedi Zadmiko.
He said some of the COVID-19 vaccine vials were brought on a “jukung” or wooden ship using vaccine cooler crates to Pisang Island.
“We still maintain the cold chain when riding the jukung using the vaccine cooler and the island is already electrified so there are no obstacles in the implementation of vaccination for health workers on Pisang Island,” he said again. (icn/bbs)
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