No data on chikungunya patients

No data on chikungunya patients

SALATIGA, Central Java: The government had yet to collect data
on those people who had contracted chikungunya, a mosquito-borne
disease, Minister of Health Achmad Sujudi said on Saturday.

"However, what is most important is that all districts and
villages work hand in hand to destroy the breeding places of the
mosquitoes that carry the disease," Sujudi said after
inaugurating a tuberculosis hospital here on Saturday.

He said that to fight the disease, which is spread by Aedes
Albopictus mosquitoes, all regency administrations were asked to
put aside between Rp 400 million (US$44.9 thousand) and Rp 500
million from their budgets to handle possible epidemics within
their respective jurisdictions. --Antara