Malang, (malangkota.go.id) – Public health certainly has an important role in efforts to improve the quality of human resources, poverty alleviation, and economic development. Given its importance, the Malang City Health Office (Dinkes) through the Janti Health Center continues to strive to ensure the health of residents in its work area.
Janti Health Center, in collaboration with the Siaga Village (Kelsi) Sukun, routinely holds the All Sector Eradication Movement (Gebrass), Saturday (27/8/2022) in RW 8, Sukun Village, Malang City.
Head of Janti Health Center, Endang Listyowati, S.Kep.Ns., M.Kes said that this activity has been carried out since 2008. Some of the activities carried out are monitoring maternal and child health, family planning services, immunization, infant and toddler health, adolescent health, elderly health, and also environmental health, such as controlling the cleanliness of bathrooms to keep them free from mosquito larvae.
"Gebrass activities are held once a month in Sukun Village. So, we go around to each RW, we will visit each RW once a year," said Endang.
In the activity held in RW 8 this time, Gebrass was also combined with the Healthy Living Community Movement (Germas). "In May 2022, we invited community leaders to attend the Germas Forum. According to the follow-up, the Gebrass activities carried out by the Siaga Sukun Village also include Germas activities, for that, along with the Gebrass activities today, we also echo Germas in the Sukun Village," he said.
Endang explained that Germas is a systematic and planned action carried out together by all components of the nation with awareness, willingness, and ability to behave healthily to improve the quality of life. Germas is built on the concept of integrated and multi-sector disease control.
"The background is the increase in non-communicable diseases in productive age which causes the cost of treatment to increase. Therefore, it is necessary to accelerate and synergize actions from promotive and preventive efforts of healthy living to increase population productivity and reduce the burden of health service costs due to disease. Germas is implemented in accordance with Presidential Instruction of the Republic of Indonesia Number 1 of 2017 concerning the Healthy Living Community Movement (Germas)," he explained.
The series of activities carried out this morning were hand washing exercises, eating healthy food, checking blood pressure and blood sugar levels. In addition, home visits were also held to check the cleanliness of the bathtub from mosquito larvae and basic health checks.
Meanwhile, Sukun Village Head, Andin Yunistiyanto, SP, MM welcomed this activity in his village. "Thank you to the Janti Health Center for paying attention to the health of residents in Sukun Village. Thank you for your cooperation so far. Hopefully the health of Sukun residents can always be monitored and good," he said.
For information, the President of the Republic of Indonesia establishes policies and takes steps according to their respective duties, functions, and authorities to realize the Healthy Living Community Movement by increasing physical activity, increasing healthy living behavior, providing healthy food and accelerating nutritional improvement, increasing prevention and early detection of disease, improving environmental quality, and increasing healthy living education. (ari/ram)
