Regarding Obstacles In Fulfilling Health Workers, Minister Of Health Reveals Amount, Distribution And Quality

Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin said there were three problems in the provision of health resources (HR) in Indonesia, namely the amount, distribution, and quality.

"On average, the number of doctors per population is 1.76 per thousand. We want developed countries to be above two. Two per thousand, three per thousand, some are four per thousand," said Minister of Health Budi Gunadi at the Communication Forum for Health Workers in Jakarta, Tuesday, May 21, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said, in countries that are almost poor or upper middle income countries, the number of doctors per population is one in a thousand. Thus, he said, the ratio of doctors in Indonesia needs to increase by 0.5 percent to meet this figure.

If the population is 280 million, he said, it will take 140 thousand more doctors and if the doctor's production is 12 thousand a year, it will take 10 years to achieve that ratio.

In addition, the Minister of Health said that there were no doctors in Indonesia. He also mentioned the fact that a doctor can work in three places while at the same time showing that health workers are still lacking.

According to him, Indonesia still lacks around 29,000 specialist doctors. In addition to these shortcomings, distribution is also difficult, because everything is concentrated on the island of Java.

Minister of Health Budi said one thing that can be handled is income problems for specialists in the regions, where there is a Regional Secretary (Sekda) or Regent who is jealous because the income of specialist doctors is greater than theirs, so they are not paid.

Therefore, his party said it had submitted a request for assistance to the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) to provide subsidies for these doctors. However, he continued, what is more important is to overcome the shortage of specialists. In addition to specialist doctors, he said, specialist nurses are also needed.

The Minister of Health thanked the LPDP for providing scholarships for nurses who want to go special.

In addition, he said, the difficulty of distribution is due to placement. The Minister of Health said that it is difficult for people in the regions to compete with urban people in obtaining specialist education.

Therefore, Minister of Health Budi said that collegium-based education in hospitals was proclaimed. According to him, there is no need to send it all the way to Jakarta or Surabaya, just study at the hospital, as long as health cases are sufficient to be studied.

The third problem, according to the Minister of Health, is quality. The Minister of Health said that like a national football team trained by foreigners, this makes the quality of players better, because the coach has competence.

"So ladies and gentlemen, later if a foreign doctor enters, if there is a president director of a foreign hospital, please see it is not as a waste, closing job opportunities. That is to answer the third fundamental issue that we must improve quality," said the Minister of Health.