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In Pontianak, Posyandu goes mobile
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An officer (left) at an integrated health service post (Posyandu) in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, gives counselling to a mother and shows data of her child's growth recorded on mobile app mPosyandu on Oct. 11, 2017.
(JP/Severianus Endi)
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embers of integrated health service posts (Posyandu) in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, have started to use a mobile app called mPosyandu to help monitor child growth and development.
To date, 305 members of counselling teams in 48 units of Posyandu scattered across 4 subdistricts in the city are using the Andorid-based mobile app to monitor about 3,600 children. As a comparison, there are about 273 Posyandu units in five subdistricts in Pontianak.
Dwi Ratna, an officer at one of the Posyandu in the western part of Pontianak, said the application had made it easier for them to analyze and interpret the data of each child and therefore could help them explain to parents visually how their children were growing and what they could do to improve their child's health.
"There are 70 children in our Posyandu and we input all of their development data every month [to mPosyandu],” Dwi said recently.
Pontianak is among three cities that have introduced the mPosyandu app, which was launched in 2016 by humanitarian organization Wahana Visi Indonesia (WVI) under its Posyandu Pintar program in collaboration with PT Bank HSBC Indonesia. The two other cities are Surabaya in East Java and Jakarta.
Yosellina, the team leader of WVI's Posyandu Pintar, said the application would enable each Posyandu member to map each child's health development every month.
"We hope the program encourages a better participation among residents, which currently stands at only 40 percent," she added. (hol/ipa)
