Despite The Flood In Cengkareng, West Jakarta City Government Ensures Child Vaccination Continues

Floods in Jakarta/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The West Jakarta City Government ensures that flood management in Cengkareng District goes hand in hand with the vaccination program for children aged 6-11 years. in Jakarta, Thursday, January 20 Quoted by Antara, Faqih said that so far the flood management has not hampered the process of vaccinating children. Based on school data, the achievement of vaccination for children in the area has so far reached 95 percent or 42,000 children of the 43,000 children targeted. Meanwhile, vaccination achievements based on data from the DKI Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Service (Dukcapil), only reached 70 percent of the 63,000 inhabitants. .

According to Faqih, he experienced several obstacles in pursuing the achievement of the data target according to the data from the DKI Jakarta Dukcapil Service. One of them is the difficulty of finding children who are not in school, but are still aged 6 to 7 years. His party is currently making efforts to pick up the ball or "door to door" vaccination in order to achieve this target in the near future. Regarding flood management, his party has mobilized Sub-department personnel. Water at the sub-district and sub-district levels to clean channels in the area of RW 11, 08 and 10 of Cengkareng Barat Sub-district. In addition, his party also deployed three water pumps to suck up water that inundated settlements to be dumped into the Semonggol river. As a result, currently the water level has reached 10 to 20 centimeters. "It's still about 10 to 20 centimeters inundated. That's because of the tidal influence, right," said Faqih.