Jakarta, Feb. 28 -- Health Ministry's official emphasized the need to strengthen the dissemination of education for health cadres regarding services and communication skills with the community to attract more parents to visit integrated health posts (Posyandu) for immunizations.

"Health cadres at Posyandu tend to lack communication skills where it should start with an approach, giving compliments, and no judgment. We need training materials for communication skills," the ministry's Directorate of Maternal and Child Nutrition, M. Fauzi, stated in a discussion on Wednesday.

Fauzi remarked that health workers at Posyandu often had poor communication skills that excluded mothers and children diagnosed with certain diseases.

This phenomenon...