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"Paramita" Social Rehabilitaion Center Responds to Cases of Babies with Cleft Lips
WEST LOMBOK
(June 2, 2021) - The Ministry of
Social Affairs through the "Paramita" Social Rehabilitation Center in
Mataram conducted an outreach to the case of a 1.5-month-old baby with the
initials AH who suffered from labiopalatoschisis or commonly known as cleft
lip.
Baby AH is the youngest of 3 siblings. He has
2 brothers who are 12 years old and 2 years old. As a result of the limited
economic conditions that make the ability of parents to fulfill their basic
life needs, AH has a delay in physical development.
AH's father's profession is a brick-making
laborer and AH's mother, who is just a housewife, is unable to meet their daily
needs.
The head of the "Paramita" Center,
Ketut Supena said that his party would solve this child's social problems by
connecting to the available source system.
"We together with Sakti Peksos (Social
Worker Service Unit), the Hamlet Head, and the BPJS have coordinated the making
of BPJS health card for babies and the BPJS has been released. Furthermore,
when the AH baby's weight has reached 5 kg, the AH baby will be assisted to get
free cleft lip surgery services in collaboration with Mataram University
Hospital," explained Ketut.
Ketut added that as long as the baby AH
undergoes surgery and treatment, the parents will stay at the Paramita Center
because the parents' house is far from the hospital.
Improving infant nutrition will be supported
by giving milk because until now AH baby can only get nutrition from his mother's
milk. The Ministry of Social Affairs through Paramita Center has also provided diapers and
clothes, telon oil, wet wipes, and other necessities," said Ketut.