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Public awareness key for controlling COVID spread: expert

Head of the Professional Development Division of the Indonesian Association of Epidemiologists (PAEI) Masdalina ...

Ministry explains rationale for providing biscuits as additional food

The government has been providing biscuits as additional food to children since 2016 due to the limited ability of ...

Ministry examines biscuits used as additional food against stunting

The Indonesian Health Ministry reported that all suspected moldy biscuits used as additional food (PMT) to reduce ...

Government to consider banning e-cigarettes if proven dangerous

The government is contemplating on prohibiting electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) if found to be harmful to public ...

Ministry revving up immunizations lagging due to COVID-19 pandemic

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that the government is catching up on immunization programs that lagged due ...

Number of stunting cases dropped to 21.6 percent in 2022

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that the number of stunting cases in children in Indonesia fell to 21.6 ...

PeduliLindungi kept 626,000 patients from transmitting coronavirus

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said that the COVID-19 mobile contact tracing application PeduliLindungi has ...

Bio Farma to launch kit for cervical cancer detection

based early detection kit for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer. CerviScan could be an ...

Minister Effendy highlights innovation to reduce stunting

Coordinating Minister of Human Development and Cultural Affairs Muhadjir Effendy highlighted innovation as essential to ...

Genome sequencing, serosurveys key for pandemic control: Minister

The key to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic lies in identifying new virus types through genome sequencing and ...

Cultivating Germas to improve people's life quality

"Preventing a disease is better than treating it" are not just words of wisdom but rather something that ...

Govt advises against liquid nitrogen use in ready-to-eat food

The Indonesian Health Ministry has advised businesses not to use liquid nitrogen in ready-to-eat foods, especially ...

Liquid nitrogen's non-procedural use in food can trigger poisoning

The Indonesian Health Ministry cautioned that the use of liquid nitrogen in ready-to-eat food products without ...

Jakarta to rehabilitate 250 slum areas to improve public health

Acting Governor of Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono has planned to rehabilitate slums areas located in 250 community units ...

7,000 babies dying yearly due to lack of specialists: health minister

At least 7,000 babies die each year of congenital heart disease in Indonesia due to a lack of cardiologists and low ...