By chance, in September 2008, President Jan Kleijn got a report from people of Kampung Ciomas village that some children were categorized as malnutrition. To respond to this, Rotary Club Bogor has invited a health officer from the responsible Puskesmas and Prof. Dr. Clara Kusharto, a nutritionist from Bogor Agricultural University, to visit those children. Following their recommendation, we brought them for a medical checking (blood test and Rontgen), to make sure about the prevalence of TBC that mostly affect malnutrition people. The test turned out to be positive.
The Puskesmas (People Health Center) helps them with six-months TBC treatment, and Rotary Club Bogor provides the children with milk. Very soon, Dr Clara and Rotary Club Bogor aregoing to train the parents (and all the villagers) on how to make and prepare healthy foods for children and family. Rotary Club Bogor got the opportunity to develop two pondok baca (Libraries) from the Yayasan Pondok Baca Rotary Indonesia, a literacy program of District 3400. The first small library is located at Kampung Ciomas, Desa Kertamaya, and has been officially opened in November 2006. The second one, at the elementary school of Ciherang Pondok, Desa Ciherang Pondok, started in 2007. For training of the librarians, we cooperated with BIOTROP’s library in Bogor.
The opening of pondok baca at Kampong Ciomas has been a snowball seed for that area. Through the reportage published in the Jakarta Post, a Singaporean foundation has generously built a totally new and the first Junior High School for villagers in Kampung Cibalung, next to Kampung Ciomas. Rotary Club Bogor again donated 30 sets of text books and three sets of computers to the school. The school received students for the first time in July 2007. Rotary Club Bogor using its club's fund helped some individuals to forgo surgeries and recovery due to illness.
Iin (21) Hospitalization and rehabilitation after a trainaccident Iin,who lost an arm and a leg in a train accident in August 2003 and who received medical treatment and rehabilitation from the Rotary Club of Bogor, via the Disabled Rehabilitation Center of the Ministry of Defense in Bintaro, Jakarta. She was well settled in Panti Sosial Dina Daksa Satria Utama, a government training institute for handicapped youngsters in Cengkareng. She took sewing and tailoring courses and got additional courses from the Rotary Club Bogor in English and in computers. She lives now again with her parents in Bogor and is trying to make a living. Regularly our Community Service members, visit her and keep in touch with her. Nita (5) Lymphatic Oedema on the left leg In April 2004 Nita and her mother Supiyatun were for a week in Australia for preliminary medical checks of Nita at Flinters Medical Centerin Adelaide. In January 2005 she went to Australia again, with her mother, for an operation and further treatments. Garuda Indonesia provided ticket with 75%discount. The case was much more complex than anticipated: the threeof four weeks she was expected to stay in Australia turned into almost three months. Half of Nita’s food was amputated and her leg was debulked. The surgical team waived their fees and the hospital didn’t charge for the hospitalization either. She has improved a lot and the project can be considered a ssuccessful. Yet some expenses were still envisaged. Nita goes monthly for physiotherapy at the Disabled Rehabilitation Center of the Ministry of Defense in Bintaro Jakarta. Adit (16) Haemangioma on the left side of the face In July 2005 Adit went for the second operation to dr. Arend Ponggawa at Sumber Waras Hospital. However, there was so much bleeding that the operation was stopped. Subsequently dr. Arend referred Adit to dr. Peter Hassan and -after aconsiderable waiting period- a laser operation was carried out. The expectation in the case of Adit is maximum of two operations to end up with Adit’s well being. Nur(16) Haemangioma on the right side of the face Early 2006 dr. Arend Ponggawa, a plastic surgeon and medical director of Sumber Waras hospital in Jakarta, dr. Lukas Budiono Atmadji,neuro-surgeon at the same hospital and dr. Peter Hassan, specialist in skin laser operation, decided that the best course of action for combating Nur’s haemangioma was cauterization by laser in two or more sessions. It was hope to scounge the blood vessels, thus starving the tissue of blood vessels and eventually remove the left-overtissue by plastic surgery. There had been a considerable length of time between the sessions. The immediate result of the treatment was an enlargement ofher swelling but that was expected. Subsequently to the improvement was a worsening of her condition. Through the contacts we had laid with Adelaide, Rotary Clubof Bogor somehow managed to bring Nur to Australia. Professor David is a topspecialist in cranio-facial conditions in Adelaide, and is considered one of the best in South-East Asia and the Pacific. Two MRIs with an interval of a year, medical reports and photos were hand carried to Dr. David by visitors from the Rotary Club of Blackwood near Adelaide. During Idul Fitri 2006, Nur received her first, very complicated surgery with success in Adelaide. Professor David has certified the good results of the surgery and provided advises for the follow ups. The swelling has been reducing slowly but sure. Since 2007, the swelling seemed to disappear but she needs some make-up surgeries to remove the excessive growth of her upper part of right eye. More operation(s) will berequired with high care. Rotary Club Bogor has been thinking of this and intensive communications with the hospital in Adelaide as well as with RC Blackwood resulted in the decision that she is going to undertake the follow up operation very soon in Jakarta – via Yayasan Citra Baru that has close cooperation with dr. David. |
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January 2018
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