INFOKU, BLORA - Team Leader for the Acceleration of Stunting Reduction (TPPS) Tri Yuli Setyowati, who is also Deputy Regent of Blora, asked all relevant parties to help so that the toddler attendance rate at Posyandu is 95 percent to reduce or suppress stunting rates in Blora District.
This was conveyed during a coordination meeting of the Team for the Acceleration of Stunting Reduction in the Bappeda hall, Monday (8/5/2023).
Ms. Etik, as Tri Yuli Setyowati's nickname, asked the sub-district heads, village heads and village heads to help increase the attendance of toddlers at the Posyandu.
"Please help us as an evaluation of how we can bring our toddlers to posyandu in 2023. Because the previous attendance rate of toddlers to posyandu was only 88 percent and there are still 12 percent of our children who haven't come to posyandu. Ideally it's 95 percent ," said Vice Regent Tri Yuli.
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The meeting was attended by the Iney Regional 2 Team, TPPS, Bappeda, PKK, subdistrict heads throughout Blora and village heads as well as the stunting locus (place) village head.
He stated, accelerating the reduction of stunting is not an individual work. However, it is a collective work.
One of the efforts made is to improve nutrition in children through the supplementary feeding program (PMT).
"Please ladies and gentlemen of the village head/lurah to give PMT to our children who are at risk of stunting for 14 days. That is our specific form of intervention," continued Ms. Etik.
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Including, he continued, the importance of increasing Posyandu human resources in the form of training in measuring or weighing children under the age of two (baduta).
The Blora Regency Government is committed to continuing its efforts so that the stunting rate in Blora Regency can be reduced and children can grow and develop in a healthy and optimal manner. (Setyorini/KOM)
