Bringing Up Babies
The health of mother and child—an important agenda of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals—remains a serious problem in parts of Indonesia. East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province is one area with the biggest difficulty: its human development index is one of the lowest in Indonesia. And no wonder, it has the highest rate of malnutrition among infants under 5 in the country. The numbers of required midwives are far from adequate. In remote areas, only midwives can do the job of ensuring good health to mother and child. Yet, the people of NTT found ways to overcome obstacles, from working together on manning village nutrition posts to providing midwives with motorcycles to ensure rapid mobility. But for how long can such efforts be sustained? Tempo English reports from NTT.
March 30, 2011
The Mutual Nutrition
The establishment of Nutrition Posts is an effective method in educating villagers of the dangers of malnutrition in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). The village of Uabau, Laenmanen, in the South Belu area of Belu regency, is testament to this.
A DOCTOR and a midwife in the Regency of Belu, Timor, manage to encourage the people to live more healthily. The number of undernourished children in this region has been reduced to 80 p
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