In order to give the intake of vitamins, Rica Nopita, a Puskesmas Cisimeut midwife walking by raising a distance of 10 kilometers with mileage can reach two hours more to achieve Badui settlement, Pamoean Village, Lebak, Banten.
She came to the house Sulah Nyanda or the traditional house of Badui tribe by carrying a blue colored box bag containing vitamins for Badui children. In addition, she also carries a weighing tool to record the weight of children so that they grow can be monitored periodically.
Viewing a number of mothers who hit their child, Rika directly greets and seduces her mother first to give vitamin A to the child. To launch her action also carries biscuits and snacks so that children want to be given vitamin A as well as body scales.
Bidan Puskesmas Cisimeut Rika Nopita carries a medical box containing vitamin A to penetrate the forest to the territory of Badui in Cibeo, Lebak, Banten.
Dua son Badui play around leuit in Cibeo, Lebak.
The woman has to go around Badui’s cultivation, visiting one’s home per one to persuade mothers and children following the administration of vitamin A. Vitamin A itself is a nutrition that plays a role in maintaining eye health, skin, and immune system.
For almost 13 years to be a midwife in the interior, he knows what is needed and when it should give vitamins in the settlement area of Badui because most women who have toddlers working a day in the field so it is rarely at home.
Despite today, there is no Badui child reports that experience eye ulcers due to vitamin A deficiency, but the vitamin administration remains to be done by targeting 119 children in the four Badui’s perks.
Bidan Puskesmas Cisimeut Rika Nopita invites the mother of Badui tribe to follow the administration of vitamin A.
Bidan Puskesmas Cisimeut Rika Nopita to measure the child to be given vitamin A in Pamoean Village, Lebak, Banten.
The administration of vitamin A supplements is also important to grow the child’s beetle in the age of toddlers, therefore the administration of vitamin A with a high dose is carried out every month of February and August held by the government by marketing children age 6-59 months.
And it is expected that the intake of sufficient vitamins for children in the interior tribe, can help the government’s efforts to prevent various diseases that can be handled since early, for the generation of the inheritance of the noble culture in the archipelago.
Photo and text : Nice Khoirunnas
Bapak Badui tribe weighs his child’s weight before the administration of vitamin A by the Colony.
Bidan Puskesmas Cisimeut Rika Nopita provides vitamin A to children of Badui tribes in Pamoean Village, Lebak.
Author : Fanny Octavianus
Bidan Puskesmas Cisimeut Rika Nopita examines the son of Badui tribe who experiences abdominal pain in Pamoean village.
Bidan Puskesmas Cisimeut Rika Nopita suggests vitamin A supplement before administered to Badui’s son.
The number of Badui’s mothers are handy to follow the administration of vitamin A in Pamoean Village, Lebak, Banten.
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