Central Java Deputy Governor Prevents Stunting By Targeting Islamic Boarding Schools
Deputy Governor of Central Java Taj Yasin Maimoen continues to strive to prevent stunting, one of which is by targeting female students in Islamic boarding schools.
"There is something to note about anemia, because most of it occurs as a teenager, so there are many things that need to be prevented. So it needs to be socialized to younger students," he said, in Semarang, Saturday.
This was conveyed during the "Workshop for Prevention of Anemia in Youth and Women" at the Islamic Boarding School, which was held in the Al Itqon Islamic Boarding School Hall, Bugen, Tlogosari Wetan, Semarang.
According to him, stunting prevention efforts must start from a teenager, not when pregnant or after a child is born.
He explained that the condition of anemia is one of the factors that causes stunting in his descendants.
Therefore, he said, prevention efforts need to be carried out from an early age, one of which is by consuming blood added tablets (TTD).
The figure who is familiarly called Gus Yasin has also asked the Central Java Health Office to send 400 tablets of blood to female students at the Al Itqon Islamic Boarding School.
"This is in the long term, for Indonesian children in the future so that no one gets stunted," said the son of the late charismatic cleric KH Maimoen Zubair.
The workshop is part of a serial program planned to be held in all Islamic boarding schools in Central Java, with the main target of female students.
The Al Itqon Semarang Islamic Boarding School is the location for the initiation as well as the launch site (kick-off) of the program.
"On behalf of the government, we would like to thank PWNU and Al Itqon Islamic Boarding Schools for organizing health education, especially regarding this anemia," he said.
NU Health Services and the Nahdlatul Ulama Health Institute (LKNU) are the main drivers of this activity, while the provincial and city governments also provide support for these activities.
"Please support it. In each boarding school there will be an early detector for anemia," said NU Health Service Chair Aris Sunandar.
It is hoped that early detection can be carried out continuously through the system per group in each pesantren. From the initial screening, if an anemia is found, the female students will be referred for further hemoglobin examination (HB).
The activity was also attended by Rais Syuriah PWNU Central Java as well as the caretaker of the Al Itqon Bugen Islamic Boarding School KH Ubaidullah Shodaqoh, the Chairperson and board of the Central Java PWNU management, representatives from the Semarang City Government, and the Nahdlatul Ulama Health Institute (LKNU).