Pulau Punjung, (Antara Sumbar) - The Government of Dharmasraya District, West Sumatera forms a Hearth in every sub-district in 2017 as an effort to suppress malnutrition case in The are.
"This year, three Nutrition Posts have been inaugurated, including Sitiung, Tiumang, and finally in Pulau Punjung Sub-district," Head of Dharmasraya Health Office, Rahmadian stated on Pulau Punjung, Tuesday (Sept 12).
She hopes the existence of Hearth can improve the nutritional status of under-five children through continuous empowerment, overcoming nutrition and health problems.
She mentioned the officers at the Hearth work with all stakeholders including village midwife to intensify the monitoring of malnutrition cases in their respective areas.
If the monitoring is suspected that the child is malnourished, it will be treated medically before the child is malnourished, she added.
"When children recover from children with suspected malnutrition, they will be monitored intensively, and they will be given additional food, nutritional intake, monitored by their weight, until the weight and height are normal," she said.
Intensive monitoring is expected so that there is no case of malnutrition in the area caused by public ignorance of the disease that is usually experienced by children, she said.
According to the cause of malnutrition, it is not only caused by people's ignorance about nutritional intake, but there is a pure innate from birth and caused infectious diseases.
"Increasing nutritional case related to three steps including enter the category of green, yellow, and red. In here, yellow and green lines mean it is at safe level," she said.
Based on the data of malnutrition cases in Dharmasraya indeed increased in 2016 from 12 to 23 cases. Therefore, the role of nutrition post should be maximized so that in 2017 there is no case of malnutrition, she added. (cha)
Editor: Vicha Faradika
Dharmasraya Forms Hearth To Suppress Malnutrition Case
Illustration. children with malnutrition cases. (Antara)
