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VIVA – According to data from the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) until October 2016, 9,131 patients with thalbademia have been recorded in all of Indonesia. In fact, if prevention is not implemented, this figure is expected to reach 25,000 by 2020.
Of course, this will weigh on the country's financing. According to the report of the Social Security Organization Agency (BPJS), thalbademia funding from 2014 to 2017 reached 1.8 billion rupees.
Therefore, according to Dr. Pustika Amalia Wahidiyat, SpA (K), Head of the Oncological Hematology Division of the RSCM Child Health Department, it is very important to screening to reduce the incidence.
"Early detection is very important in determining a person's status, whether it is a carrier of nature or not, before it goes down, because the carrier of the nature of thalbademia is completely asymptomatic and can be active as a healthy person, "he was met at the thalbademia forum meeting in Southeast Asia, 2018 Health, Jakarta, Wednesday, November 28, 2018.
For prevention, Amalia explained that this could be done by preventing marriage between carriers of the nature of thalbademia. Carriers of the nature of thalbademia can bescreening with a blood test.
"I must screening better, that Before marriage or before the wedding. But we are always willing and therefore remain voluntary. It is therefore difficult to suppress them, "said Professor Dr. Akmal Taher, Specialist of the Ministry of Health, Sp. U (K).
Until now, said Akmal, no special government program required the community to do it. screening badociated with thalbademia. Therefore, it is important to increase the understanding and awareness of people to want to do it. screening.
As is known, thalbademia is a red blood disease inherited from parents to children and their offspring. Erythrocytes break easily and patients become pale due to lack of blood (anemia). People with thalbademia need a blood transfusion and continuous treatment throughout their lives.
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