First Lady Ani Yudhoyono asked the team movers Family Empowerment and Welfare (PKK) and the cadres increased activity in the integrated service post (Posyandu)."Increase in innovative activities in accordance with the conditions of the local area," he said during an inspection of integrated health in the Sun II Crocodile Hole Sub-District, District Cipayung, East Jakarta, Tuesday.
On that occasion, the First Lady was accompanied by Minister of Health Sedyaningsih Endang Rahayu, Governor Fauzi Bowo, Chairman of the Central Team PKK Vita Gamawan Fauzi, Head of Team PKK DKI Jakarta Fauzi Bowo Tatiek and Solidarity members of United Indonesian Cabinet Wife (SIKIB).
First Lady hopes eventually all posyandu can be done independent posyandu integrated services for elderly people, infants and families cultivated early childhood education, maternal care movement, information services and family counseling, as well as efforts to increase family income.
In addition, he continued, a healthy 50 percent of the funds derived from the contributions posyandu citizens.
"Like the Sun Posyandu Crocodile Hole II in which the best posyandu in East Jakarta and the first championship race Posyandu as DKI Jakarta this," he said.
He also asked the cadres to move all posyandu mother so she could get health and nutrition services and education about preventive maternal mortality, childbirth and childbirth.
Mrs. Ani explained, the direct cause of maternal mortality include haemorrhage, eclampsia, and a long birth process while indirect causes are three and four is too late.
Three late which meant that he was too late to recognize the danger and decided to seek help from health facilities, leading to referral facility, and obtain aid measures.
While four terlalunya is too old, too young, too often pregnant and too many children.
"I am told, in addition to socialize three and four is too late before, cadres posyandu also recommend pregnant women to check themselves and their infants weighing mothers, provide immunization and become family planning acceptors," he said.
Furthermore, he explained, posyandu activities organized by public execution for the community that will accelerate the achievement of the targets of efforts to decrease maternal mortality and infant.
Minister of Health said the number of Posyandu have increased significantly in recent years.
The number of integrated health increased from 232 thousand in 2004 to 267 thousand in 2007. The number of infants who weighed in posyandu also increased from just 43 percent in 2004 to 75 percent in 2007.
Posyandu activities have been supporting efforts to accelerate the achievement of the target reduction in maternal mortality and infant and decrease malnutrition rates in infants who agreed countries in the world in the millennium development goals (Millennium Development Goals / MDGs).
"The degree of improved public health, was marked by the decline in infant and maternal mortality and malnutrition prevalence is less in infants," he said.
According to Minister of Health, the maternal mortality rate in 2007 has decreased to as much as 228 per 100 thousand live births and should be taken down again lowered to 118 per 100 thousand live births in 2015.
While the infant mortality rate is targeted to fall from 34 per 1000 live births in 2007 to 24 per 1000 live births in 2015.
"And the number of malnutrition in infants can fall from 18.4 percent in 2007 to less than 15 percent in 2015," the Minister of Health.
