Vaccine is
known as a substance which is injected into the body
and it is definitely useful as a shield against any diseases by increasing the
immunity of the body. In Indonesia, it is a must for all children to receive the
immunization since they age 4 years old to avoid some serious diseases, such as
polio and hepatitis. However, it turned to be something frightening and panicking for the nation due to the exposed fake vaccines which have been distributed to many health
facilities and hospitals in Jakarta and some regions of the island of Java. The substance which fortunately should give benefits to the immune system
ended up turning the body fragile and easy to get infected.
This scandal is terrifically astonishing of how those fake vaccines could
be freely distributed for over 13 years with millions of children harmed. It
leads to suggest three possible causes. First, imported vaccines became extinct
for years while the number of needs increased year by year. “Many parents from
high middle class society prefer to choose alternative (imported) vaccines
(than the locals)” as quoted by Tengku Bahdar Johan Hamid, the head of National
Agency of Drugs and Foods Control (BPOM) in m.tempo.com. Their extinction led
some irresponsible activists to invent illegal imported vaccines. Secondly, the
higher price of imported vaccines ended up giving them bright idea to
distribute the illegal vaccines with much lower price. Last, it could be
assumed lack of proper overhaul from BPOM was one of the assumed causes as
well.
In sum, deaths may be
hardly linked to the fake vaccines and truly can be anticipated by
re-vaccinating the victims, yet if the government does not start any action, it
can be assumed parents will feel trepidatious to let their kids jabbed and
immunized. Therefore, this hair-raising scandal commands to suggest two
solutions. First, the BPOM seriously requires to tighten their regulations to
carefully sort all foods and medicines before getting distributed. Moreover, Biofarma as the main supplier of local
vaccines should provide more various kinds which have not been manufactured
before, with imported-like quality and surely affordable price. It aims to
reduce the number of imported vaccines users in Indonesia, thus the extinction
of imported ones would not be a matter for parents and would not give any
chance to other syndicates to play more games.(ME)
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