Efforts To Improve The Health Service Ecosystem By Expanding Screening

Special Staff to the Minister of Health for Public Health Services, Prastuti Soewondo (center). (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Special Staff to the Minister of Health for Public Health Services, Prastuti Soewondo, said that one of the efforts to improve the health care ecosystem is to expand the screening and immunization imposed on the Social Security Administration (BPJS). "In our improvement, we are preventive, we are expanding immunization and screening, for early detection and awareness to protect ourselves from getting worse," said Prastuti, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, November 11.

Beki, Prastuti's nickname, said that he assessed that the adoption of innovative medicine had improved but still had challenges to strengthen the health care system.

One of them is the participation of the community to maintain health behavior so as not to further burden the burden on health expenses by BPJS.

In addition, Beki said that health investment must also be carried out strategically and evenly in all health facilities and increase the availability of doctors according to competence so that treatment is really effective so that patients do not fall ill more severely, especially in non-communicable diseases.

"In the future, we will strengthen the first level of health facilities by procuring doctors, improving competence in equipment to be repaired, so that disease treatment is not contagious in the BPJS chronic disease management program (prolanis) is really effective so it doesn't get worse," he said.

In advanced referral-level facilities, it is also necessary to analyze data from BPJS which reduces to the highest cause of death in non-communicable diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, and urology so that the treatment bureaucracy does not need to take long.

Meanwhile, the adoption of treatment innovation must be carried out in stages and effective according to data on the cause of early death from cancer.

"The way all innovative drugs must be included is that the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) recommendations are improved so that there are more innovation options, both medicines and medical devices, whoever the research actors are," said Beki.

The Ministry of Health is committed to transforming the Indonesian health system through the 6 pillars of the transformation carried out.

The six pillars are the transformation of primary services, referral services, health security systems, health financing systems, health human resources, and health technology.