BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan: The government of Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, through the Health Agency seek to eradicate intestinal worms from some residents, AntaranewsKalsel reported.
According to the Head of Puskesmas (community health center)Kuin Banjarmasin Haji Mohammad Abrar Ris worm disease harm the younger generation, especially children, because it causes the body sluggish and thin.
Worm attacks usually cause children lazy and lethargic body feels so lazy to school and learn to be a fool later.
“If most generation lazy and stupid will certainly affect the human resources of this country to the future, so the disease must be eradicated,” he told reporters in Banjarmasin Monday with respect to deworming immunization in the community.
Worm infection is generally characterized worms caused by earthworms (STH) Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and Ancylostoma duodenale.
Ascaris lumbricoides is known in the community as roundworm, Trichuris trichiura known as whipworm, while Ancylostoma duodenale is hookworm.
He said all of the children in order to be given deworming drug free during the month of worm immunization which began August 1, 2016.
The provision of deworming medicine spread in all puskesmas in the city of about 700 thousand inhabitants, he said.