Cakung Barat Puskesmas Intensifies Polio Vaccination
Reported by Nurito | Translated by
Cakung Barat Urban Village Community Health Center (Puskesmas), Cakung, East Jakarta, intensifies Polio vaccination to reach the target.
Not only door to door, but we also visit RPTRA
Cakung Barat Urban Village Puskesmas Head, Istika Rahma, said there are 8,179 children aged 0-7 years must receive polio vaccination. At this time, the vaccination has reached 5,427 children or 66.35 percent.
Kelapa Dua Wetan Intensifies Polio Immunization Service"Not only door to door, but we also visit RPTRA. There are many toddlers visit the park together with their parents," she said, Thursday (8/1).
Today, she added, the vaccination was held at RPTRA Albo RW 08 and RPTRA Cempaka Sari at RW 01. There were 470 children received vaccination. It will be held again on Friday (8/2) at RPTRA Pool Asri RW 07.
"We deploy two personnel. They were assisted by TP PKK cadre, dasawisma, RPTRA administrators, and so on," she added.
According to her, many parents did not take their toddler or children to take immunization because of many factors such as they did not know about polio immunization, and afraid of side effect after immunization.
"This mobile service is targeted to complete Sunday (8/4)," she stated.
