Evaluasi Pelaksanaan Program PMT-P pada Balita Wasting

Abstract

The Indonesian Ministry of Health established a Recovery Supplementary Feeding Program (PMT-P) to overcome the problem of malnutrition in children under five. The low percentage of toddlers who have increased their nutritional status after getting additional food during 2019 indicates a problem in implementing the PMT-P program at the Sebangar Health Center. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of the PMT-P program for wasting toddlers at the Sebangar Health Center based on input, process and output components. This study used a qualitative method with a research design Rapid Assessment Procedure (RAP). Primary data collected trough in-depth interviews and observations. Informants are nutrition officers, head of health center, village midwives, cadres of Integrated Healthcare Center and wasting mothers. The results showed that nutrition officers lacked experience in being the person in charge of the PMT-P program for toddlers at the Sebangar Health Center. Lack of understanding of the officers regarding the PMT-P program guidelines for toddlers due to the lack of socialization by nutrition officers. Storage places for additional food at both the health center and the village do not meet the requirements. Monitoring by the officers was not carried out according to the PMT-P guidelines. The resulting output is still low, only 1 out of 5 target children whose nutritional status changes to normal. The implementation of the program of providing additional recovery food for wasting toddlers at the Sebangar Health Center in 2020 is not optimal because there are still several components do not comply with the PMT-P program guidelines for toddlers.