We will check your child’s height and weight again which indicates stunting
Mataram (MidLand) – The health service in Mataram city, West Nusa Tenggara province, will collect around 2,000 children listed as having stunting, in a bid to validate the true number of stunting cases.
“We are planning this activity for the end of June 2024, in an open space and divided into three zones in six sub-districts throughout the city of Mataram,” Mataram city health service head Emiral said on Sunday Isfihan, in Mataram.
The latest data from the Mataram City Health Service (Dinkes) recorded that in January 2024, stunting cases were recorded in 8.61% or around 2,000 children under five years of age.
“But looking at the efforts and the provisional data, trace“We can aim for a reduction to 7 points,” he said.
For this reason, to consolidate the objective of the data, it is considered necessary to carry out a real validation by collecting 2,000 children indicated as suffering from growth retardation in an activity.
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He explained that technically, the collection of stunted children was carried out for three days in different areas in six sub-districts of Mataram city in open areas such as Green Open Spaces (RTH).
“We will again check the height and weight of children who have stunting problems, so that the data is truly valid,” he said.
Therefore, in this activity, his party will involve the Indonesian Association of Doctors (IDI), the Indonesian Association of Midwives (IBI) and the Association of Nutritionists of Mataram City (Persagi).
In this way, it is hoped that cases of stunting in Mataram City can be recorded in real terms so that intervention efforts can be conducted in a more focused and targeted manner.
Meanwhile, he added, as many as 11 community health centers across Mataram city are validating case data of young children with indications of stunting in their respective work areas.
“We call this effort a two-step stunting data validation. The first step is to validate the puskesmas, the second step is to collect and monitor them in real time,” he said.
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