It also applies to dealing with everyday health problems that will affect the quality of life of our individuals.
Jakarta – Health Ministry is observing Integrated Health Posts ( posyandu) Awareness Month to improve services at health facilities so that they reach any age groups and end up being local leaders in health service provision for the neighborhood.
Posyandus serve any age groups, consisting of infants, pregnant females, and the elderly, director general for public health at the ministry, Maria Endang Sumiwi, kept in mind during a virtual discussion at the Posyandu Awareness Month Workshop on Friday.
She said that posyandus will be strengthened to perform advertising and preventive health services, such as medical screenings.
” By bolstering the services at the posyandus, the neighborhood will likewise become healthier,” she added.
The director general stated that the posyandu is a smart health service system, which is straight owned and run by the neighborhood– with the assistance of the town and main governments– and straight benefits them.
” It is anticipated that the execution of the Posyandu Awareness Month will motivate the community to come to the posyandus to check their health,” she noted.
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She urged parents to go to health facilities to monitor the health of their children and asked pregnant ladies and female adolescents to go to posyandus to check whether they experience anemia or not.
In addition, Sumiwi stated that grownups and the elderly can pertain to posyandus to check their high blood pressure and blood sugar level levels.
” We have learned from the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that we will succeed in conquering a huge issue if all individuals (and stakeholders) participate in fixing it,” she discussed.
” It likewise uses to dealing with daily health problems that will affect the lifestyle of our people,” she included.
Hence, she said she anticipates that through the Health Ministry’s main health improvement program, which likewise consists of posyandus, the neighborhood will likewise actively take part in dealing with daily illness.
The Posyandu Awareness Month program is being carried out in cooperation with the Home Affairs Ministry; Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration Ministry; in addition to the Empowerment and Family Welfare Development Group (TP PKK).
The program likewise aims to increase the number of residents visiting posyandus and has asked the village heads to actively contribute to maintaining the operation of posyandus
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