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Unhealthy villages to be mapped in Malang
Authorities in Malang regency in East Java, will map villages with unhealthy populations as 14
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uthorities in Malang regency in East Java, will map villages with unhealthy populations as 14.55 percent of the regency's 3,092,714 population suffered from various illnesses as of December last year.
Malang regency's Health Agency head Abdurrachman said the agency had mapped the health condition of the regency's 378 villages and 12 subdistricts and would categorize the degree of health in green, yellow and red, with green denoting a healthy area.
"Villages with yellow and red designations should get priority attention," Abdurrahman said.
He added that the agency was training community members on health issues, to create community-based health-alert villages.
All villagers could become frontline health workers, so that they could help people in emergency situations and not rely too much on community health centers (puskesmas), he added.
"At least, community members can give first aid if someone is in an emergency situation," Abdurrachman said as quoted by tempo.co.
In the future, he said, the health workers would get incentives from the village fund. (++++)
