Health Workers In Banten Find 5 Toddlers In Badui Experience Stunting

Illustration. Bedouin children in Kadu Ketug Village, Central Lebak Regency, Banten are playing and learning without being guided by teachers. (ANTARA-Mansur)

BANTEN - Medical personnel (nakes) found four under five years old (toddlers) in Bedouin settlements in the interior of Lebak Regency, Banten, experiencing stunting or stunting. "We focused the handling of four stunting toddlers and two pregnant women experiencing hypertension and potentially bleeding," said Tika, a medical worker at the Cisimeut Health Center, Lebak Regency, Banten, Tuesday, April 23, was confiscated by Antara. The discovery of stunting toddlers and pregnant women underwent hypertension (high blood) as well as the potential for bleeding based on the results of health checks in Kadu Ketug Village Kanekes Village, Lebak Regency. Where Kadu Ketug is a residential of the Outer Bedouin Indigenous or Bedouin community attached to working areas under the responsibility of the Cisimeut Health Center. Medical officers for community health services in Bedouin settlements there are nine posyandu with nine midwives. However, health checks in Kadu Ketug were recorded as many as 25 toddlers and nine pregnant women. From these health checks, four stunting toddlers were referred to the local health center for further health checks. Likewise, two pregnant women will undergo further health checks, because they experience high blood and potential bleeding. "We hope that four cases of stunting toddlers and two pregnant women who experience high blood as well as potentially bleeding can be normal and recovered," he explained. Head of Population Control and Family Planning at the Population Control Service, Family Planning, Women's Empowerment, and Child Protection (DP2KBP3A) Lebak Regency, Hj Tuti Nurasiah said that the government next week will hold a stunting integrated celebration and handling of inflation as well as extreme poverty involving regional apparatus organizations (OPD).

Dalam gebyar terpadu itu, kata Tuti, selain memberikan edukasi dan pendampingan juga merealisasikan berbagai pembangunan yang melibatkan OPD.Pelaksanaan gebyar terpadu itu dilakukan di 10 desa di enam kecamatan, karena berdasarkan data di daerah itu tertinggi angka stunting, inflasi dan kemiskinan ekstrem.Mereka para OPD dalam gebyar terpadu itu memiliki peran penting sesuai fungsi dan tugasnya, di antaranya PUPR merealisasikan pembangunan sarana air bersih, Dinas Permukiman dengan membangun rumah tak layak huni (RTLH).Begitu juga Dinas Kesehatan melakukan pemeriksaan kesehatan ibu hamil dan bayi serta anak balita serta Dinas Sosial menyalurkan bantuan makanan.Dinas Pengendalian Penduduk, Keluarga Berencana, Pemberdayaan Perempuan, dan Perlindungan Anak (DP2KBP3A) Kabupaten Lebak memberikan aneka makanan bergizi terhadap anak stunting dan keluarga rawan stunting.Kasus jumlah pravalensi stunting di Kabupaten Lebak, termasuk di pemukiman Badui tercatat 3.734 atau 3,38 persen."Kami minta semua OPD berjalan lancar untuk mengoptimalkan intervensi sesuai tupoksinya guna mewujudkan kesejahteraan masyarakat," tandasnya.