Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture urged the people to play an active role in improving basic immunization coverage for children to provide optimal protection.
This can be achieved by bringing them to health facilities, such as integrated health posts (posyandus) and public health centers (puskesmas), for basic immunization, the ministry's Disease Control and Mitigation Assistant Deputy, Nancy Dian Anggraeni, noted.
Members of the public, specifically parents, should ensure that their children have received complete basic immunization in accordance with the schedule, she remarked here on Wednesday.
The ministry continues to intensify education and dissemination of information on the benefits of basic immunization for children, she stated.
"The ministry also encourages public figures, religious figures, and education figures to play an active role in conducting the dissemination of information and education to the public," she remarked.
Thus, the people will realize and understand the importance of immunization for boosting the body immunity, specifically of children, she noted.
"Immunization is intended to produce healthy and quality human resources. It also serves as one of the efforts to prevent the spread of infection of various communicable diseases among members of the public," she explained.
Moreover, the ministry invites professional organizations to play an active role in clarifying false information and news concerning immunization.
"Through intensive education, the people are expected to believe in the benefits of immunization and bring their children for immunization," Anggraeni stated.
Meanwhile, Field Epidemiology Expert from Jenderal Soedirman University Yudhi Wibowo emphasized the need for the government to continue to intensify education on the importance of basic immunization to provide protection to children.
Wibowo noted that several types of disease can be prevented through immunization.
"For instance, there are diphtheria, measles, polio, tetanus, hepatitis B, pertussis, to Haemophilus influenzae type B," he stated.
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