Suara.com – The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017 showed that Indonesia was the 7th country with a ranking of pneumonia highest. Pneumonia is the second leading cause of under-five mortality in Indonesia, after preterm delivery with a prevalence of 15.5 percent.
According to a release from Save The Children which is accepted Suara.com on Friday (16/7/2021), there are various factors that cause pneumonia in children. These include the unfulfilled exclusive breastfeeding (54 percent), low birth weight (10.2 percent), incomplete immunization (42.1 percent), and air pollution in closed spaces and crowded houses.
Ironically, in 2018, 19,000 (16 percent) children under five or 2 children under five per hour died of pneumonia. In 2019, Save the Children globally launched a campaign for pneumonia awareness.
STOP Pneumonia is a campaign that targets awareness to change behavior to overcome pneumonia in children to the wider community, outreach to stakeholders, social mobilization, and parenting campaigns to strengthen the role of fathers in the family.
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“We together with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection with the support of Pfizer through the Come Immunization STOP Pneumonia campaign event invite stakeholders and parents to make National Children’s Day 2021 and the declaration of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) vaccine by the Ministry of Health in 2021 as a joint effort. in preventing child deaths from pneumonia,” said CEO of Save the Children Indonesia, Selina Sumbung as quoted from the release.
“One of them is by building awareness of the importance of full immunization as a form of saving and survival of children which is the main right of children. We hope that pneumonia in children can be reduced in the future,” he added.
In 2021, as a series of celebrations for National Children’s Day, Save the Children with the support of Pfizer Indonesia held an online campaign entitled: Come on Immunization STOP Pneumonia. This activity also launched the song “STOP Pneumonia” which got a muri record as the first song about pneumonia in Indonesia.
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