Hot line for dengue fever

Mon, 24 Nov 1997, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA (JP): A hot line service for Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
(DHF) has been set up by the state telecommunications company PT
Telkom in cooperation with Lahsi (Lembaga Aksi Hidup Sehat
Indonesia), a non-governmental organization specializing in
health information services.

Volunteers from Lahsi provide a 12-hour service from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m. every day, giving detailed information about the disease
and steps to prevent the disease from becoming fatal.

Based on data from the city's public health agency, 5,568
people were affected by DHF last year and it was estimated that
treatment cost Rp 3 billion per month.

"This is just a rough calculation. I think throughout 1996,
the number of sufferers and financial losses may be much higher
than that," M. Nasser, head of Lahsi, said over the weekend.

Besides the DHF hot line at (021) 8379-2222, Telkom also
provides an AIDS hot line at (021) 3903838, Marriage Consultancy
hot line at (021) 3457444 and a National Development hot line at
(021) 3857974. (07)

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