Spot light on Public Health
After a 10-minute drive from the Kelay district community health center (puskesmas) in East Kalimantan, the rumbling engine of the ambulance gives way to the splashes of the Kelay River. Fransisca Sinambela emerges from the ambulance, shielding her eyes from the glare of the sun. It is 8am in the morning. A ketintingthe local name for a boatis waiting for her and six others on the Kelay riverbank. "Let's have an excursion along the river!" the 24-year-old woman joked late last month.
Fransisca, affectionately known as Chika, is a nurse. On that day, along with her team of colleagues, she was to start a week-long mobile puskesmas service in the area as part of the Pencerah Nusantara, carrying a complete set of medical equipment aboard a boat only about the width of an average adult.
May 19, 2015
After a 10-minute drive from the Kelay district community health center (puskesmas) in East Kalimantan, the rumbling engine of the ambulance gives way to the splashes of the Kelay River. Fransisca Sinambela emerges from the ambulance, shielding her eyes from the glare of the sun. It is 8am in the morning. A ketintingthe local name for a boatis waiting for her and six others on the Kelay riverbank. "Let's have an excursion along the river!" the 24-ye
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