Kajian Kapasitas Puskesmas dalam Pengambilan Contoh Makanan Penyebab KLB Keracunan Pangan di Kabupaten Bogor

Abstract

Food poisoning outbreak is one of the food safety issues that must be handled seriously. Most of the cases of food poisoning in Indonesia are not reported yet or they are reported but unknown causes. One attempt to solve the problem is through a good food handling by taking samples of food, tested them in the laboratory, then reported the cause of food poisoning outbreaks to the related agencies, such as puskesmas. The aim of this study is to assess the readiness of puskesmas in handling the outbreak of food poisoning in Bogor district based on the capacity of puskesmas to reduce the food poisoning outbreaks, such as its human resources, tools and available materials as well as types of puskesmas. The method used in this study is the primary data collection which is obtained from direct interview to respondens and guided by questionnaires. In addition, secondary data the number of puskesmas that have experienced food poisoning outbreak in Bogor district is gathered from the Dinas Kesehatan and food poisoning outbreak data is obtained from BPOM RI. Based on the result, 44 % of puskesmas have number human resources around 20 to 30. The tools and materials owned by the puskesmas did not reach 100%. Type of puskesmas influence the readiness of the puskesmas in handling and taking sample of food poisoning outbreak. Around 39.13 % of non rawat-inap type of puskesmas were categorized ready and only 13.04 % of rawat-inap type of puskesmas were categorized ready.