Death Due to Diarrhea: Before and After National Rehydration Program

W.A.F.J. Tumbelaka (Department of Child Health, Medical School, University of Indonesia, Jakarta.)
Sunoto Sunoto (Department of Child Health, Medical School, University of Indonesia, Jakarta.)

Paediatrica Indonesiana
Vol 18 No 11-12 (1978): November - December 1978

Diarrheal diseases still constitute one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Indonesian children. The ertiology is multi-complex as in other developing countries. In 1974 a National Seminar on Rehydration was held in Jakarta and a rehydration program started with a standardized treatment of Ringer's Lactate and oral rehydration (ROSE SYSTEM). As a result the case fatality rate of diarrheal diseases has been dramatically reduced for for gastroenteritis and cholera.