United
Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) representative for Indonesia Angela Kearney
said on Thursday that Indonesia's infant mortality rate is still high although
it showed a downward trend in the past few years, local media reported.
Based on a Unicef global child mortality
report, over the past 10 years infant mortality rate declined significantly to
35 out of every 1,000 births in 2011 from 97 out of every 1,000 births in 1991,
she said at workshop on household to hospital cantinuum care held in Makassar,
South Sulawesi.
The achievement was inseparable from the
central and regional government's endeavors, she said.
After all, the results of a health demography
survey showed 193, 000 children lost life chance every year before they reached
the age of 5 years, she said.
In South Sulawesi alone, 17.3 out of every
1,000 newborns died before they reached the age of 28 days last year.
Two-thirds of the deaths occurred on the first week of their life and one out
of every four mothers gave birth to their children without the help of trained
medical workers.
Mothers' poor access to health facilities in
the country posed one of the obstacles to the promotion of the nation's health.
One out of every five mothers came from poor families, she said.
She said that a lack of infrastructures and
equipment and the low number of trained medical workers had hindered the
fulfillment of health services, the Antara news service said.
To deal with the challenge, the method of providing
health services must be improved and the support of trained medical workers
must be increased, she said.
"I am very happy to see Unicef
cooperating with the South Sulawesi provincial government to develop
comprehensive approaches to overcome the shortcomings at social level and
public health system at provincial health facilities," she said.
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