Jakarta (ANTARA) – Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin accentuated that commemoration of the 58th National Health Day (HKN) might turn out to be a momentum for a significant overhaul in Indonesia’s nationwide well being system.

“Hopefully, the 58th National Health Day would become a momentum and a big point of change in the Indonesian national health system and also the Ministry of Health,” the minister acknowledged on the commemoration of the 58th National Health Day titled “Rise Up My Indonesia, Healthy My Country” in Jakarta on Saturday.

As the COVID-19 pandemic is at the moment beneath management, the minister reminded his workers concerning the time left in conducting transformation of the nationwide well being system.

Sadikin outlined six pillars within the transformation of the nationwide well being system. The first pillar is the transformation of the first service system by reinforcing all built-in well being heart (posyandu), group well being heart (puskesmas), and public well being laboratories and offering digital technology-based well being providers to them.

The second pillar is the transformation of the referral or hospital service system.

“We will ensure that all hospitals are equipped with sufficient resources, both in terms of medical devices and health human resources, to be able to treat diseases that are causing the highest death rate in Indonesia now,” he acknowledged.

The third pillar is remodeling the well being resilience system by making certain well being resilience within the type of vaccines, medicines, and medical units which might be constructed inside the nation. This is then adopted by rising the capabilities of specialists for analysis and growth in that area.

The fourth pillar is the transformation of the well being financing system, whereas the fifth pillar is the transformation of well being human sources.

“All puskesmas must have a doctor and a complete health workforce. Each hospital must have nine specialist doctors,” he remarked.

The minister later famous that the sixth pillar was well being expertise transformation to arrange the Health Ministry sooner or later.

“We must develop our health information technology to be ready and based on digital technology to facilitate access to health for the community in the future,” he acknowledged. 

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