Preventing Pneumonia: Indonesia’s Commitment to Reducing Child Mortality

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Director of Prevention and Infectious Diseases at the Indonesian Ministry of Health (Kemenkes), Dr. Imran Pambudi, MPHM, said that the problem of acute respiratory infections (ARI), including pneumonia, has increased in the last few decades. This increase occurred globally and nationally, both in developed and developing countries. In fact, pneumonia is also said to be the main cause of death in infants and toddlers.

“Pneumonia is the main killer of children under five in the world and in Indonesia. Pneumonia causes more deaths in children under five in the world than AIDS, Malaria and Measles combined,” said Imran in Jakarta on Thursday, November 9 2023, to coincide with the commemoration of World Pneumonia Day 2023 .

Pneumonia, which is part of ISPA, can infect one or both lung organs. It is known that there is no single cause of pneumonia. This infectious disease can be caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi in the air. 60 percent of pneumonia cases in developing countries are caused by bacteria, while in developed countries the cause is viruses.

The Indonesian government is paying attention to pneumonia cases by committing to stopping deaths of newborns and children under five due to preventable diseases to less than 12 per 1,000 live births of newborns and reducing deaths to less than 25 per 1,000 live births under five.

As a follow-up to this commitment, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Center for Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Gadjah Madah University, has prepared a National Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhea Management (RAN PPD) 2023 – 2030.

“The pneumonia death rate must decrease from 3 per thousand live births to only three deaths per thousand births in 2030, diarrhea 1 per thousand live births,” said the Director General of Disease Prevention and Control at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Dr. Maxi Rein Rondonuwu, DHSM, MARS, when giving directions at the event.

2023-11-12 05:38:32
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