Merauke, Aktual.com – Although located in the same province as the location of the Freeport gold mine, it does not mean surely prosper. Similarly, infants experienced in Merauke, Papua province that 20 percent of them experienced malnutrition.
Chief Medical Officer Merauke dr.Stefanus Osok.M Kes, MM revealed, in addition to malnutrition, the other four percent of children under five suffering from severe malnutrition. The conditions were not much different also experienced 15 percent of pregnant women in the area who also experienced malnutrition.
“The numbers are always changing but the percentage like that. So for example in the group of pregnant women every six pregnant women, one of them malnourished,” he said in Merauke, on Thursday (30/6).
Malnutrition and malnutrition, due to the recognition of the community has not been able to produce foods that can provide a lot of vitamins and protein for health.” Food consumed it should contain carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and minerals,” he said.
Similar problems, he said, is not just happening in some local villages in the countryside alone. But also hit the population in the center of the town of Merauke. “People eat just enough with sago and rice with fish or fish without vegetables and fruits,” he said.
Generally, people inland of Papua only foods potluck because it is less able to meet the needs of the economy.
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