Minister Of Health Ensures The Readiness Of Health Facilities Ahead Of The G20 Summit

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin together with Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan inspected the preparation of health facilities at Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA/HO-Kemenkes).

JAKARTA - Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin ensured that health service facilities in Indonesia were ready to support the G20 Presidency event in Bali.

"Nationally, there are 400,000 hospital beds available, 30 percent of which is allocated for the treatment of COVID-19 patients," he said, quoted by Antara, Friday, February 25.

Minister of Health Budi together with Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan ensured the readiness of health facilities in Bali today.

Budi reported that health facilities in Bali, especially hospitals and medical personnel, are ready to support the G20 journey.

"As many as 120 thousand (beds), 30 percent of 400 thousand. Why 30 percent, because there are still people who also have heart disease, cancer, kidney disease, and others who must also be treated," he said at Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, Bali.

Of the 120 thousand beds dedicated to COVID-19, 38 thousand of them are occupied by patients. This number is much lower than the occupancy of hospitals when the Delta wave in the July-August 2021 period reached more than 100 thousand patients.

"The need for treatment rooms in hospitals is much lower than in Delta's time, so I'm not too worried about the need for hospitals to hold G20 meetings," he said.

Coordinating Minister Luhut appreciated the readiness of the health sector ahead of the G20 Presidency and as a whole to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic nationally.

"Sanglah Hospital has the facilities ready. Now we and the Minister of Health are discussing that later we will prepare expert doctors. For this G20 preparations must be completed in June," he said.

Director of Sanglah Hospital I Wayan Sudana said the vertical hospital belonging to the Ministry of Health class A has international standards accredited by the International Joint Commission (JCI), as well as national standards from the Hospital Accreditation Commission (KARS).

Sanglah Hospital has a total of 706 beds. For the treatment of patients due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 154 beds have been prepared. Of these, the maximum occupancy is around 46 beds.

His party also alerted 366 specialists and subspecialists.

Especially for the G20 Presidency, he has prepared specialists in internal medicine, surgery, cardiac, anesthesiology, lung, including nursing staff with competencies that have been trained according to international nursing standards.

"Not only has Sanglah Hospital been prepared, but it also involves Bali Mandara Hospital and the private sector, including Siloam Hospital," he said.