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i4 APRIL 2008
KHUSUS
UNTUK
IBU MENTERI
KESEHATAN
KOD
EDISI
PAGI
SCAN :
The ldkarta Post
he
government
is
launching a campaign
to prctect and seflue
datural rcsources, Euch aE
water, salang climate change
is Eeriously atrectidg
lndone-sians'health and is a burden
on the national health system.
Health Minister Siti
!bdi-lah Supari, sp€aking during a
World Health Day evcnt bel€
Sundqy, said, " cLimate chsnge
is directly and indtu€ctly
prc-foundly affecting peopieb
health. th€lr ar€ more diseas€
outbr€aks and other problems
due to the imbalaDc. of the
Siti said the changing
cli-mate would cause
natural
dis-aEt€rs,
such as heal waves,
floods and dmught.
H i ; l n r r r
r
Govt focuses
on climate-related
health
Changing temperatures
and precipitatiob might also
inclease outbr€aka of diseases
sensitive to the climate,
such as malaria, dengue,
malnutrition and dianhea,
she !aid.
"That'E why effolts io
implove basic sanitation
facilities ar€ deeded id
deal-ing with immediate and
fu turc health consequences,"
Coordrnating Minister for
People's Wellare Aburizal
Bakrie call€d for more
rcsponsible use oI
diminish-ing water supplies.
. "Th€ availability of clean
water supplies could prevent
infectious
diseases
and secuE
food pmduction,"
he said.
Th€ govemm€nt's World
Health Day them€ was
"Pro-tecting Health from Climate
Change",
in line with the
global campaign carried out by the worLd Health Organi' zation (wHO).
The WHO repEsentative for Indonesia, Stephan Pau.l Josl, said it was time to put healtl at th€ heart of the climate change ag€nda and imptement stmtegies to limil healtb effects and advocate actions that would benefit health.
He ssid manv poteniiat health problems could bc con-trolled through health syslem intervenlions, ineluding dis' ease sur.'/eillanca, disaster preparcdness and primary
A fomer United Nations anbassado! for the Millenni-um Development Goals, Ema Witoelar, said Indonesia should locus on the improve-ment of basic sanitation facil-ities in o.der to pmtect health
Imn climate change. "Improved sanitation is the answer for climate-related bealth problems. Diseases a!€ jusl the outcomc of poo. sani-tation facilin6,'she told ?he
E r n a s a i d m a n y p e o p l e looked do*'n on th€sanitation sector She said out of lh. 2,200 schools in Grcatcr Jakarla,less thar half oI them had adequate toilets
"Some schools don'l har€ toilets. and the ones that do arcn't providcd *irh water,
Ema also expr€ssed con-cem the investment lor
lvlovE YouR BoDY Hearth
rvrinister
siri Fadirah
supari
fl6,u
and
coordj
natins
Min
ist€r
for People's
welfsr€
Abu
rizal
b"iir"liisfil-f"rJti.*.;d in a littl€
exorciso
s;;aavit senarian'
c"ntrat'takarts
lt was
pan
of an €vent
to comm6morateworld
