‘Injections Without Shadow’: Vaccinator on Wheels
In March 2021, Juanli registered as a vaccinator and trained at the Batam Health Training Center
Juanli
Armed with a syringe, a wheeled chair, and a pink trolley, Dr. Juanli, 41, is battling Covid-19 through vaccination. As a volunteer vaccine administrator in Jakarta, he has vaccinated up to 600 people per day in a race against time as Covid-19 continues to spread across the nation.
Amidst the confusion surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, new hope has emerged after a vaccination video went viral. The video shows Dr. Juanli skillfully administering vaccines to around 530 of a total 560 recipients in less than six hours on 24 June 2021 at Casa Jardin Residence in West Jakarta.
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The video, which has been watched more than 208,000 times as of Friday (13/8/2021), has drawn the keen attention of netizens.
While it is the vaccine recipients who usually move from place to place in a vaccination program, here, it is the doctor who rolls from recipient to recipient in a wheeled swivel chair, pulling along a trolley with medical equipment along an orderly line. As a result, the vaccination is faster, with one injection taking no more than 20 seconds.
"This is called creative vaccination in rapid motion, or gercep, and ‘injection without shadow’. To practice, I use my own equipment. I brought a pink trolley belonging to my daughter and a dentist’s chair belonging to my dentist wife," Juanli explained his vaccination method by video call in Jakarta on Thursday (15/7).
In March 2021, Juanli registered as a vaccinator and trained at the Batam Health Training Center. After completing his training, he has been administering vaccines since April at the Serviam Vaccination Center in Central Jakarta.
Initially, the vaccine program ran as usual, which he thought took too long. From a system that used four tables and a 30-minute observation period, the government reduced the system to two tables and a 15-minute observation period. But that was still too slow for Juanli.
The initial process is still the same, with prospective vaccine recipients registering and undergoing a basic check-up.
In June, Juanli adopted a new vaccine administration method after he was inspired by a video of a vaccination program in Japan. The initial process is still the same, with prospective vaccine recipients registering and undergoing a basic check-up.
What is different is that the recipients then sit in chairs arranged neatly in a line. Using the wheeled chair and trolley, Juanli starts vaccinating the recipients down the line. After injecting one person, Juanli swiftly rolls along to the next person and on until he reaches the end of the row.
Those who have received their injection then move to the observation area, and another recipient sits in the empty seat. After he finishes vaccinating the row, Juanli goes back to the top of the line and continues by injecting the newly seated recipients. It could be said that Juanli moves back and forth like an iron.
Juanli with residents who received the vaccine.
According to Juanli, this method is more efficient and effective. The proof is seen at the several vaccine centers where he has worked, including the Serviam Vaccination Center at Casa Jardin Residence and the MNC Vision Tower vaccination center, both in West Jakarta, as well as another center at Atma Jaya Catholic University Campus 3 in Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD), Serpong, South Tangerang.
"This method saves time and the number of [staffers], reduces exposure, and increases recipient capacity. I can inject four people in one minute, as long as all the instruments are ready. At MNC Vision, for example, I injected around 670 of a total 853 recipients in one day," Juanli said, explaining that his method was safe.
From April to mid-July 2021, Juanli had administered vaccines to 6,210 people on 25 separate occasions. His method requires only around 27 program staff, including one to two vaccinators, to vaccinate 500 people.
Oxygen canister campaign
Juanli also initiated the Oxygen Canister Movement for Humanity, a charity movement to procure oxygen for independent isolation patients (isoman), or people self-isolating at home, who have found it difficult to access a hospital. He began the campaign when he got a WhatsApp message that an acquaintance’s mother needed oxygen. In the end, his wife’s dental clinic lent one of the three oxygen canisters it had.
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He then remembered several oxygen canisters were still available at the Bintang Laut Clinic run by the Puteri Kasih order of Catholic nuns in Cilincing, North Jakarta, where he volunteered. After asking permission from the nuns, he informed a WhatsApp group of colleagues that he had nine oxygen canisters to lend.
The initiative was welcomed. More and more parties became involved as volunteers or and individuals donated oxygen canisters or simply gave money.
Around 350 isoman have benefited from the movement.
The movement now has around 50 volunteers and 274 oxygen canisters on loan across Central Jakarta, West Jakarta, South Jakarta, East Jakarta, Bekasi, Tangerang, and Bandung. Its volunteers are split into three teams comprising a hotline and a screening service, as well as a mobile team that make rounds from self-isolating residents to the nearest oxygen and volunteer point. Around 350 isoman have benefited from the movement.
According to Juanli, all these efforts are aimed to help mitigate and prevent the spread of Covid-19. He also expressed hope that his vaccination method could be adopted more widely so Indonesia could reach its target of 2 million vaccinations per day and achieve herd immunity much quicker.
Juanli
"We used to fight with a bamboo spear [the iconic weapon of independence fighters], now we fight with a sharp needle to help Indonesia recover. We have to try different ways to get different results," he said.
Juanli
Born: Sungai Bakau Besar Laut, Pontianak, 16 June 1980
Education:
- Doctorate of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FKIK), Atma Jaya Catholic University Jakarta, class of 2005
- Bachelor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FKIK), Atma Jaya Catholic University Jakarta, class of 2003
Occupation:
- Initiator, Oxygen Canister Movement for Humanity (2021)
- Social Services Doctor, Bintang Laut Clinic, Susteran Puteri Kasih, Cilincing, North Jakarta (2000-present)
- Agency Director, PT Prudential Life Assurance
- Founder, DRJ Academy (2012)
Wife: Lina Noviyanti
Children: Vincentius Alexander Lie, Louisa Anastasia Lie
(This article was translated by Hyginus Hardoyo).
