Sweetta police station gives TB toddlers and stun in Tangerang

Tangerang – toddler between 2.5 years with the initials P, suffers from tuberculosis (TB) and stunting. Seekarno-Hatta Airport Police Station picks up the ball to provide medical assistance to the victim. Police Chief of Police Chief Combes Ronald Sipayung said this step is a form of public health concerns, especially children who are at risk for prolonged stunting. “P will be an airport police station for six months. We will provide health interventions, monitor their conditions and provide nutritious foods such as milk, eggs and vitamins, so that their weight increases to ideal conditions,” Ronald said, Wednesday (9/17/2025). Browse to continue with content P is the son of the S and E -couple, residents of the Selembaran Village, Selembaran Jaya Village, Kosambi district, Tangerang. The father, S, worked as a caretaker at Soekarno-Hatta Airport. “P with his parents lives in an unfit environment so it requires special attention,” he added. The airport police Dokkes team will regularly perform health control during the program every week. On Wednesday afternoon, Deputy Chief of Soekarno Hatta Airport AKBP Joko came with the Dokkes team of Soekarno Hatta Airport to the home of P’s parents in Salembaran Jaya. In addition to carrying out a health examination, the Soekarno Hatta Airport also assisted nutritious food packages for P such as eggs, rusks, fruits and vitamins. “This nutritional and vitamin food package is to overcome this toddler of stunting. With this mentoring program, we are optimistic that Paris will become a healthy child, become his weight gain and are free from stunting,” Joko said. The head of the Medical and Health of the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Police Clinic, Dedy Kurniawan, explained that the results of the investigation showed that P TB had and was treated in the hospital and the local health center. “In addition to TB, P is in the stunting category. At the age of 2.5 years, it weighs only 8.7 kilograms, even if ideally about 12 kilograms. The handling should be comprehensive, stretching from periodic health examinations, nutritious food, to vaccination,” Dedy explained. S, Paris’s father revealed that his son has been identified on tuberculosis and stunting since the age of seven months. “His son is hard to eat, so his weight is hard to go up,” S. said not just focused on P, airport police also held a social service by distributing 200 food packages to online car bikers, laborers and other airport workers. Cheap food activities are also performed by selling 15 tonnes of rice for RP52 thousand per 5 kilograms, cheaper than the highest retail price (Het) of RP 62 thousand. (Mea/HAF)