Minister Of Health: Suspension Until Dismissing Position Awaits Perpetrators Of Bullying Doctors

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin (ANTARA/Andi Firdaus).

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that sanctions for suspension and dismissal await the perpetrators involved in cases of bullying of students at educational hospitals within the Ministry of Health.

"We hope to decide for decades the practice of bullying carried out on participants of the Specialist Doctors Education Program (PPDS), which so far we don't want to discuss, now we break up. So that students can concentrate on learning, be more conducive in the atmosphere, and be free from bullying," said the Minister of Health, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, July 20.

Budi said the forms of sanctions imposed on perpetrators of bullying targeted three groups, each teaching staff and other employees, students, and leaders of educational hospitals.

Sanctions that bind to educators, namely light sanctions in the form of written warnings, moderate sanctions in the form of suspension for three months, and severe sanctions in the form of a lower one-level demotion for 12 months, release from office, dismissal as a hospital employee, or dismissal for teaching.

Sanctions that bind students are light sanctions in the form of verbal and written warnings, moderate sanctions in the form of suspension for at least three months, and severe sanctions in the form of returning students to education providers or being expelled as students.

Especially for the leadership of educational hospitals where there are cases of bullying, said Budi, minor sanctions in the form of written warnings, moderate sanctions in the form of suspension for a period of three months, and severe sanctions in the form of a lower one-level demotion for 12 months, release from office, or dismissal as a hospital employee.

All provisions related to these sanctions are regulated in the Instruction of the Minister of Health Number HK.02.01/Menkes/1512/2023 concerning Prevention and Bullying of Students at Education Hospitals within the Ministry of Health which takes effect from today.

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