City, Private Party and Denmark Cooperate to Control Diabetes

The city administration signed a cooperation agreement for the Action Plan stage of the Cities Changing Diabetes (CCD) Program held in the Hall, Jakarta City Hall, on Tuesday (8/27).

If we can do an early detection and take better preventative measures, the level of health in the community will be higher

It was attended by Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and its ranks; Novo Nordisk Vice President for Indonesia, Morten Vaupel; as well as Danish Ambassador to Indonesia, H.E. Rasmus Abildgaard Kristensen.

The governor appreciated the moment, which acts to map on blood sugar disease. It was very helpful for residents or diabetics to detect early risk of disease.

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"If we can do an early detection and take better preventative measures, the level of health in the community will be higher," expressed Anies, quoted by Jakarta PPID press release.

This collaboration was hoped could be in line with the Jakarta Healthy Living Community Movement (Germas) in a bid to directly reach people and make a more comprehensive detection in Jakarta.

"We already have them (Germas) in which the government intensifies preventive action to increase productivity and reduce potential health problems, so I hope we can collaborate," he explained.

Jakarta Health Agency Head, Widyastuti assessed more than 400 integrated health counseling posts (Posbindu) had been set up in all urban villages. They would strengthen health networks and promote healthy lifestyles to diabetics.

"We use them (Posbindu) to make people know their health status, especially blood sugar. At least it can be through screening to detect its risk numbers. We also strengthen health service through community health centers (puskesmas), hospitals, health cadres and citizens," she asserted.

She went on to say that the city would also issue policy implications for the healthy lifestyle of its citizens, to intensify preventive measures against diabetes, such as sports festivals and so forth.

"Our lifestyle must be healthy, to cut the risk of diabetes including its prevalence rate," she uttered.

So the conclusion is this cooperation is hoped to realize a tight work between public and private stakeholders in implementing long-term solutions to prevent diabetes and providing treatment for people living with diabetes in urban areas.