1,000 Children In Palembang Potentially Stunting, Vice Mayor Fitrianti Agustinda Orders Community Health Centers To Go Down In The Field

Deputy Mayor of Palembang Fitrianti Agustinda. (AMONG)

PALEMBANG - The Palembang City Government, South Sumatra, until June 2022 is monitoring the growth and development of 1,000 children under five years old (toddlers) who have the potential to become stunted.

For these monitoring tasks, puskesmas and posyandu officers were ordered to actively go to the field.

Deputy Mayor (Wawali) of Palembang Fitrianti Agustinda said, with intensive monitoring and provision of healthy and nutritious food intake, toddlers who are monitored for stunting can control their health conditions and can live normally like other children.

"For the age of five, they can only be freed from stunting, so toddlers' growth and development must be monitored intensively so that if there is a problem of malnutrition, it can be handled quickly," he said in Palembang, Antara, Wednesday, June 29.

To ensure that the monitoring activities run as expected, Fitrianti explained that she carried out direct escorts.

The monitoring activity for stunting children that was carried out recently was at a resident's house in the Kelurahan 2 Ulu, Seberang Ulu I District, Palembang.

In the opportunity to carry out monitoring activities for children affected by stunting, assistance was provided in the form of healthy nutritious food and fruits.

With the assistance of healthy and nutritious food and intensive monitoring of its growth and development, it is hoped that stunted children up to the age of five can grow normally and healthily, said the Deputy Mayor.