Support National Children’s Day with the Stop Pneumonia Movement in Children Through PCV Immunization

Fimela.com, Jakarta Disease pneumonia still often haunts the people of Indonesia, especially children. This disease also often brings patients in critical condition and even cannot be saved. According to a release received by the Fimela.com team from Save the Children Indonesia, Indonesia is ranked 7th in the world as the country with the highest burden of pneumonia according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017.

The reason is, there are 25,481 under-five deaths due to acute respiratory infections or 17% of all causes of under-five mortality in Indonesia. Pneumonia is the second leading cause of under-five mortality in Indonesia, after preterm delivery (premature) with a prevalence of 15.5%.

Various factors are the cause pneumonia, such as not fulfilling exclusive breastfeeding (54%), low birth weight (10.2%), not fully immunized (42.1%), and air pollution in closed spaces and crowded houses. In 2018, 19,000 (16%) children under five or 2 children under five/hour died from pneumonia.

In 2019, globally, Save the Children launched a pneumonia campaign in children through efforts to increase public awareness about the dangers of pneumonia in Indonesia. STOP Pneumonia is an integrated campaign that targets awareness to change behavior to treat pneumonia in children to the wider community, outreach to stakeholders, social mobilization, and parenting campaigns to strengthen the role of fathers in the family.

“We together with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection with the support of Pfizer through the Come on 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. 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 “the silent killer” in children can be reduced in the future,” said CEO of Save the Children Indonesia, Selina Sumbung.

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 “Let’s Immunize STOP Pneumonia”. The campaign activities were carried out simultaneously to launch the song “STOP Pneumonia” which received a muri record as a song about pneumonia first in Indonesia.

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