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5NG And RSTD To Reduce Mortality Rate In Central Java

A health volunteer is on regular visit to a pregnant mother's house in Semarang, Central Java Province on September 06, 2019. The Central Java Provincial Government has promoted Central Java Happy to peek at pregnant women or 5NG (JateNG GayeNG NginceNG WoNG MeteNG) and Hospital Without Borders or RSTD (Rumah Sakit Tanpa Dinding) programs to reduce maternal and infant mortality rate and to improve its population's degree of health. The volunteers joining these programs would visit and provide free healthcare for pregnant women at their homes, which involve providing physical examination and counseling, and even taking and accompanying them until they give birth to their infants. If need be, they would even call the ambulance and access 24-hour emergency midwife service with the closest hospital. Based on the Province's Health Department's data, in 2013 the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Central Java was around 118.62 per 100,000 live birth. Currently, the rate has decreased drastically to 88.58 deaths per 100,000 births. (Photo by WF Sihardian/NurPhoto)

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