Strengthening The Availability Of Healthcare Professionals, Medical And Nursing Students Are Encouraged To Graduate Fast
JAKARTA - Students in the health sector, both medical and nursing students, are encouraged to graduate quickly. Given, the surge in COVID-19 cases is already worrying.
The chairman of the House of Representatives Commission X, Syaiful Huda, made this suggestion as an emergency measure to ensure the availability of health workers in the face of the second wave of COVID-19 in the country.
“Those who are at the final level and just need to complete their academic obligations that are administrative in nature will be released immediately. They can immediately be assigned to strengthen the availability of health workers in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in the country," said Huda, Sunday, June 27. According to the PKB politician, the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic that are evenly distributed throughout Indonesia cannot be taken lightly. In fact, the last few days have continued to create new records of positive COVID-19 cases, which reached 20 thousand cases per day, on Thursday, June 24. “If there are no fundamental policies, it could threaten the health care system considering the bed occupancy rate (BOR) the referral hospital is almost full. In addition, many health workers are starting to fall,” explained Huda.
In addition to emergency measures, Huda also encouraged the government to accelerate the vaccination program in Indonesia. According to him, Indonesia is currently battling against time to create group immunity in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before the creation of group immunity, he said, Indonesia would continue to be vulnerable to another wave of pandemics. “If you look at the data, vaccination in Indonesia is relatively slow compared to some other countries. Even though our vaccine stock is relatively safe," he said. Huda agreed with the proposal of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives who is also the Chairman of the House's COVID-19 Disaster Control Team, Muhaimin Iskandar, who requested the opening of the Village Polyclinic as a vaccination center. "If there is a shortage of vaccinators, medical students and nursing students can encouraged as volunteers. We believe that with this joint work the vaccination program will be completed in a short time,” concluded Huda.