Do you know where people who live in
the villages or remote areas go when they get sick? People who live in the
villages or remote areas go to public health center when they get sick. They
choose that place because it offers cheaper services than private hospital or
general practitioner. Besides that, public health center is easily accessible.
It can be found in almost every village or district. These conditions make more
and more people go to public health center. It is a place where we can get
information, treatment, and consultation our sickness.
People who live in the villages or remote areas go to
public health center if they need information, about health, contraception, and
first aid. Similar to people who live in the villages or remote areas, some
people who live in the cities also go to that place to get the same things. For
instances, we can get information on how to stay health. We can stay health by
avoiding certain health hazard: smoking, drinking, and drugs. By avoiding those
things we can reduce the possibility of getting sick. We can also get
information on how to avoid pregnancy by applying several methods of
contraception. The methods of contraception are condom, IUD (intra uterine
device), vasectomy, and sterilization. Besides that, at public health center we
can get information on how to give first aid. There are some ways to help
someone who is in badly needed. For examples, someone who gets hurt, an
accident, and drown. We can help him/her by giving first aid like stop the
bleeding, artificial respiration, and by preventing the victim from losing body
heat. This information is very important because if we know how to give first aid,
we may help saving a person’s life-especially in an accident where the correct
use of first aid may make a difference between life and death.
Public
health center will give treatments to everybody who comes to that place. The
rich and the poor will get the same treatment from public health center. But
usually, people who come to public health center come from poor families. The
poor families prefer to come to public health center because its treatment is
cheaper than private hospitals or general practitioners. For instances, the
treatment at public health center ranges between Rp. 3500 to Rp. 12000. These
rates valid in the cities and in the villages or remote areas, the treatment
ranges between Rp. 2000 to Rp. 5500. These costs have already included the
medicine. Besides that, there is an exception for the poor families. Someone
who comes from family can get free treatment from public health center. To get
free treatment from public health center, he/she has to bring a recommendation
letter from reliable sources. He/she can attain a recommendation letter from
the head of the village if he/she lives in the village or remote area. But if
he/she lives in the city, he/she can attain it from local government. Public
health center will not give free treatment to someone if he/she doesn’t bring a
recommendation letter even though he/she comes from poor family.
Public
health center also gives consultation to some people who get sick or don’t feel
well. At that place, we can consult the sickness that we have from the minor
illnesses to the serious ones. The minor illnesses are like constipation,
fever, cough, headache etc. And the serious illnesses are like heart diseases,
lung cancer, bad cough etc. It is better for us to consult the sickness that we
have because by doing that we can prevent our sickness from becoming worse.
In
summary, we can attain information, treatment, and consultation our sickness at
public health center. At that place, we can get more detail information about
health, contraception, and first aid. Besides that, public health center’s
treatments are cheaper than private hospitals or general practitioners. It also
gives free treatment to some people who cannot afford to pay the fee. More than
that, public health center is easily accessible. It can be found in almost
every villages, remote areas or districts. As a result, more and more people go
to public health centers, especially those who come from poor families.
