Surabaya DPRD Questions The Accountability Of The Health Office Program Regarding Free Health Services

Baktiono/Photo: Antara

SURABAYA - The Special Committee for Accountability Reports (LKPJ) for the Mayor of Surabaya in 2021 highlighted the performance of the local health office regarding the implementation of free health services in the City of Heroes, East Java.

The chairman of the LKPJ Mayor's Special Committee for the Mayor of Surabaya 2021, Baktiono, said that his party assessed that the Surabaya Health Office (Dinkes) could not translate the vision and mission of the Mayor of Surabaya regarding free health services. Family Card (KK).

"The mayor's vision and mission is clear, which is to make it easier for the public to get access to health services," said Baktiono who is also the chairman of Commission C of the Regional Representative Council (DPRD) in Surabaya, Thursday, March 31.

According to him, Surabaya City residents who earn less than Rp. 10 million should be able to get free health services at hospitals by showing their ID cards or family cards.

However, he continued, the reality is that Surabaya residents cannot get these health services, in government hospitals, the National Armed Forces (TNI) hospitals, the National Police (Polri) hospitals, and private hospitals.

"But they can only get free treatment at the Soewandhie Hospital and the Bhakti Darma Husada (BDH) Hospital," he said as quoted by Antara.

Baktiono assesses that it is possible that hospitals in Surabaya have not received socialization from the Surabaya City Health Office regarding the program that is the mayor's policy.

"The Health Office did not collect the All-Indonesian Hospital Association (Persi), it has not collected the hospitals belonging to the provincial government in Surabaya. This could be because the Health Office does not understand, does not know," he said.

In relation to this issue, he continued, the special committee will invite the Surabaya Health Office on Friday, April 1.