Jakarta – The Health Ministry is using a targeted technique to deal with nutritional problems in girls, pregnant women, and young children to speed up efforts to reduce the stunting rate to 14 percent by 2024.
” We will enhance particular interventions to accelerate stunting rate decrease to (bring the rate to) 14 percent by 2024,” Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono Harbuwono notified at the “2022 National Stunting Forum” in Jakarta on Tuesday.
In the 2 years delegated achieve the target, the federal government will use a targeted approach in the form of evaluating young women and pregnant females for anemia, he stated.
For early detection of the threat of blood shortage, the Ministry of Health has dispersed hemoglobin (Hb) meter sets to 10 thousand neighborhood university hospital ( puskesmas) across Indonesia to allow 3.6 million young women to get their blood checked every year.
Harbuwono stated that female trainees aged 7 to 12 who are detected with blood deficiency will be provided blood-added tablets every week.
” We have actually dispersed around 12.3 million blood-added tablets to avoid young ladies from getting anemic when they are pregnant.
Apart from girls, the ministry has actually also dispersed 4.8 million blood-added tablets for pregnant women, which require to be taken in once a day, to all puskesmas in Indonesia.
” About 79.41 percent of pregnant ladies need to take in at least 90 tablets of iron supplements during pregnancy to prevent stunting,” Harbuwono stressed.
Additionally, the federal government has likewise advised 4.8 million pregnant females to monitor their pregnancy every day utilizing the Antenatal Care (ANC) technique.
The deputy minister stated that the ministry has actually increased the variety of prenatal checks from 4 to six, with two ultrasounds and 2 examinations by specialist doctors.
According to him, 63.87 percent of the ultrasound devices has actually been distributed to puskesmas in Indonesia and the distribution of the staying gadgets will be completed gradually till all puskesmas receive them.
” Supplying ultrasound devices and ultrasound training for medical professionals at puskesmas is one of the important steps to keep track of babies’ development and growth inside the womb and to see the stunting chance too,” he said.
Other targeted approaches include the provision of additional food and unique breastfeeding for infants and pregnant women, Harbuwono specified.
As numerous as 12 concern provinces recognized for stunting decrease have actually revealed substantial indicators of improvement, he included. Nevertheless, there are still 7 provinces with a high variety of stunting cases.
The 7 provinces are East Nusa Tenggara, West Sulawesi, Aceh, West Nusa Tenggara, Southeast Sulawesi, Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, and West Kalimantan.
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