|
|
 |
|
News/Event Item
Indonesia: Building a Bridge to Eliminate Malaria
Feb. 11 2009
Like most remote villages in Indonesia, Ngreco, tucked away in the mountains of Pacitan District in East Java Province, suffers from a high incidence of malaria.
The village's remote location means residents are inaccessible to district health workers, and have little access to health care services. In eastern Indonesia, where malaria is endemic, malaria rates are usually 20-30 percent, but at one point in Ngreco it reached 80 percent.
In 2006, a US$25,000 grant from the local government allowed the 5,400 inhabitants to build a much-needed concrete bridge to replace the precarious, hanging bridge that they had been forced to use until then. The money was not enough, but the villagers knew they needed the bridge, and so they decided to contribute their time and resources to make up the difference.
© 2009 IRIN
For full article, visit:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=82809
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 11 February 2009
Asia :
recall this item.
|
|
Share
