Ambassador (Ambassador) United States (U.S.), Scot Marciel visited the Academy of Midwifery at the Polytechnic of Health Jayapura (PKJ), Papua Province, yesterday.
Marciel met the students at the academy is a program supported by USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) and UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund). The students were educated in order to improve maternal and child health in the easternmost province of Indonesia. In his first visit in this eastern Indonesia,
Marciel discuss innovative ways to incorporate antenatal care with the treatment of malaria in the USAID-funded program since 2006. "My visit to Papua to see the building and midwifery and to meet existing as well as regional leaders," says Marciel in Jayapura yesterday.
Marciel said the U.S. government supports the policy of the Government of Indonesia to build Papua. The U.S. also supports any development policy aimed at welfare of the people of Papua. Meanwhile, representatives of UNICEF Papua Fitria Jana said, despite living in Papua, which is known as a high malaria endemic areas, not all midwives know how to handle the disease on pregnant women. Indonesia Today
