by Editor 19/03/2009 @ 22:56
E-mail: Ministry of Health provided funding Rp200 billion to finance various research on the disease bird flu (Avian Influenza / AI), as well as prevention efforts and penanggulangannya.
“Already the funds provided Rp200 billion per year for that. Help overseas but there is certainly still remains in our control,” said Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari after speaking international symposium on bird flu in the Airlangga University Surabaya, Kamis (19 / 3). Â
He added that his side have a basic mechanism related to the provision of government funds and the use of foreign assistance funds to research bird flu disease. “There is selection, the only quality approved. Research with assistance from abroad also have their own mechanism,” he said.
Separately Head of Research and Development of Health Department of Health Agus Purwadianto has explained his side have a plan of research on bird flu disease. “It has been mapped based on the needs, the implementation is coordinated so that does not overlap,” he said.
He explains, research on bird flu efforts primarily focused on the search method of disease detection and diagnosis of bird flu and the development of human bird flu vaccine for humans. “The point of all that is required for the effort and prepandemik pandemic. For that there must be detection and diagnosis technique that quickly and accurately,” he said.
He adds, the government also seeks to develop research to produce bird flu vaccine on humans. “Research and development of the vaccine will be conducted in the BSL-3 laboratory in the UNAIR and in Jakarta,” he said.
According to him, there are currently three units with laboratory safety standards Bio-Safety Level 3 (BSL-3) in the UNAIR, University of Indonesia, and the Eijkman Institute Biomolekuler. Laboratory BSL-3 Research and Development Agency Health Department of Health, he said, will also be completed and start operation this year. “That’s enough. Tinggal maintenance only, soalnya expensive maintenance costs,” he said. (Antara)
