The Last 5 Years, The Maternal-Child Mortality Rate In North Barito, Central Kalimantan Drops

Head of the North Barito Health Service, Siswandoyo, opened the MCH surveillance meeting (ANTARA/HO)

KALTENG - Maternal and Child Mortality Rate (MMR) in North Barito Regency, Central Kalimantan in the last five years has tended to fall. This is an important indicator of the quality of health programs.

"MMR has decreased from 346 per 100,000 live births (KH) in 2010 in the population census to 305 in 2015," said Head of the North Barito Health Service, Siswandoyo in Muara Teweh, Antara, Wednesday, October 6.

According to him, the infant mortality rate (IMR), also decreased from 32 deaths per 1,000 KH in 2012 to 24 deaths per 1,000 KH in 2017 (2017 IDHS).

"Nevertheless, (MMR) in Indonesia is still the highest in Southeast Asia and is still far from the global SDG target of reducing MMR to 183 per 100,000 KH in 2024 and less than 70 per 100,000 KH in 2030," he said.

This condition, he said, indicated the need for strategic and comprehensive efforts. To achieve the MMR target to fall to 193 per 100,000 births in 2024, it is necessary to at least reduce maternal mortality by 5.5 percent per year.

He brought this up at a meeting of the Maternal and Child Health Surveillance (KIA) in the local district.

Surveillance is basically the systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health data and evaluation of public health efforts.

"I really welcome the holding of this year's meeting on maternal and child health surveillance in North Barito Regency," said Siswandoyo.

Head of Public Health, Enny Franziah, when delivering her report, said that the purpose of holding this surveillance meeting was to implement maternal and child health in North Barito, evaluate the results of the implementation of health programs and obtain agreements in order to achieve indicators of the MCH health program.

"The participants who took part in the activity were 17 people, namely the coordinating midwife of the puskesmas in North Barito and the method of implementing the activity was presentation and discussion," he said.