IPB Students of Hepatitis A Patients who were Treated were Reduced
Students of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) who got the medical care in the hospital because of Hepatitis A began to decrease. According to Vice Rector of Academic and Student Affairs of IPB, Prof.Dr. Yonny Koesmaryono, from 28 students they were only 15 students treated at the moment. All medical expenses were borne entirely by IPB.
“The latest data from 28 students treated, 13 students are still being treated in RS. Karya Bhakti Pratiwi and 2 students in RS. Medika Darmaga. From the mass examination toward the students which we have to do in these two days, there are 11 students who are the suspects of hepatitis A. They are already referred to do the blood tests in order to get further treatment,” said Prof. Yonny in the press conference in Lecture Hall of Faculty of Agriculture, Campus of IPB Darmaga, Bogor (12/12).
To prevent the transmission of Extraordinary Events (KLB) of Hepatitis A, IPB did a quick response to a medical examination of students. Until yesterday afternoon, it was already 204 students who consulted their health conditions. In addition to the medical examination, IPB also did the socialization about the balanced nutrition, the food safety, the profile of IPB canteen as well as the curative and preventive actions to hepatitis. Illumination about the healthy canteen was in and around the campus of IPB, the cleaning action of the environment in the campus and the students’ residence environment.
Head of Prevention and Eradication of Disease and Environmental Health, Health Office, Bogor District, Dr.dr. Kusnadi, also explained that recently it was conducting the Epidemiological Investigations (PE), one of them was by taking samples of food consumed by the students of IPB.
“Transmission of Hepatitis A is through oral and rectal. The incubation period is longer, about 15-50 days. So it is not easy to trace the source of the virus, because it has happened two weeks ago. It may be that we take samples today but the bacteria or the virus turns out no longer existing. But with this PE, we do to break the chain of transmission,” he said.
Hepatitis A was a disease that could heal itself and could recover one hundred percent. The symptoms were many and included in the mild disease. The symptoms were such as nausea, fever, like tea-colored urine, yellow eyes. This was different from Hepatitis B which had minimal symptom but severe impact.
The prevention effort was by consuming the food that was clean and hygienic. Other than in IPB, a similar case was ever experienced by a boarding school in Parung, where there were 95 santri exposed to Hepatitis A in October 2015. But managed to control it by breaking the chain of transmission. (zul)
