Ministry Of Health Affirms Plans To Improve Type D Hospitals In Indonesia

Sysmex Indonesia CEO Forum 2025, In Kuningan, South Jakarta (Yesica Sitinjak/VOI)

JAKARTA - Director General of Pharmacy and Medical Devices of the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes), Rizka Andlucia, discussed the government's plan to develop hospitals in Indonesia. The government has a priority target to realize the increase in type D hospitals to type C.

Thus, type D hospitals are expected to no longer exist in Indonesia in the future. Especially for remote areas, at least there is a minimum type C hospital.

"Hospital development or improving the quality of our health services through improving the quality of hospitals. Type D hospitals will no longer exist. In the area of the minimum of one city district has one type C hospital," said Rizka during Sysmex Indonesia CEO of Forum 2025, in Kuningan, South Jakarta, on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.

Rizka said there would be around 62 hospitals in remote areas to be built, to catch up with health services there. Thus, many medical devices will be needed to fulfill hospital services.

"This requires a lot of support, both medical devices, instruments and consumer medicines," he said.

Therefore, support from both the government and the private sector is needed to create Indonesia without type D hospitals in the future.

"Of all the visions of the President in 2024-2029, three of them are programs assigned to the Ministry of Health, and of course not only the Ministry of Health, but also the participation of all health sectors, both the government and the private sector," he concluded.

Meanwhile, type D hospitals are transitional hospitals, because one day they will be upgraded to type C hospitals. The ability of type D hospitals only provides general medicine services and dentists.