JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health said that it was studying the provision of incentives for general practitioners and dentists in Remote, Border, and Island Areas (DTPK), as well as career development, as an effort to improve the welfare and protection of health workers.
"For the problem of incentives, we have managed to provide 30 million incentives per month for 1,370 specialist doctors. Now we are studying whether we can do the same for general practitioners and dentists in areas that are DTPK," said Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a meeting with the DPR in Jakarta, Thursday, June 25, reported by ANTARA.
The Minister of Health discussed a number of challenges for Indonesian health workers, including workload, distribution, income gaps, differences in career development in primary services versus hospitals, and bullying.
"Some of them can get orders for billions a month, some of them can get a month, some of us often hear it like parking attendants who are hundreds of thousands. This is one of the areas where the gap is very high," said Budi.
He gave an example, in Bone Regency, the allowance for specialist doctors is IDR 3 million, while in Mahakam Ulu it is IDR 80 million.
Because of the high gap, he said, his party would collaborate with relevant ministries as an effort to overcome this.
However, he said, the lack of income is not only a problem encountered by his party, but also distribution. He said many young doctors could not work because positions at hospitals were filled by old doctors.
"If we can distribute this better. That's why there are doctors whose Practice Permit (SIP) is 3, there are young doctors who want to enter because their SIP has been filled by old doctors. Although the old doctors may not need to work in the hospital," he said.
Budi added that the old doctors get an income that can reach 3 thousand times the new doctors. This is what his party will fix again.
The Minister of Health also highlighted the issue of career differences in primary health facilities and hospitals, which led to the viral posting on social media related to all doctors wanting to work in hospitals.
"That the incident happened and we have to solve it. So that the careers of doctors, medical personnel, health workers who work in primary services are not a lower caste than medical personnel and health workers who work in secondary services," said Budi.
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