Fulfill Basic Rights, BPJS Health Ensure Access to JKN for Inmates in Papua

BPJS Health Officer, Jayapura Branch (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Jayapura Health Social Security Organizing Agency (BPJS) ensures that access to the National Health Insurance (JKN) service is provided to inmates of the Papua Correctional Institution (lapas) as a form of fulfilling the basic rights of citizens.

The Head of the Jayapura Branch of BPJS Kesehatan, Hernawan Priyastomo in Jayapura, Monday, said health services are the basic rights of every citizen, including those who are serving a criminal sentence.

"For this reason, BPJS Kesehatan is committed to ensuring that all health facilities, including in the prison environment, can provide optimal health services for JKN participants," he said.

Through the JKN scheme, he said, the residents can obtain various health services, ranging from light health checks, treatment of common diseases, to advanced treatment through a referral system to the hospital if necessary.

"The existence of JKN is very helpful for the residents in getting treatment for various health complaints, both mild diseases and serious diseases that require referral to the hospital," he said as quoted by ANTARA.

For this reason, his party appreciates the performance of health clinics in each prison in the BPJS Kesehatan working area.

"Like the health clinic at Abepura Prison, Jayapura City, which we see has provided optimal health services to all inmates, where in the prison it provides good service in the prison can be an example for other prisons in Papua," he said.

He emphasized the readiness of BPJS Kesehatan to continue to collaborate with the prison authorities in increasing the understanding of inmates regarding their rights and obligations as JKN participants.

"We will continue to ensure that all residents in Papua know and make the most of their health service rights through JKN," he said.