Anies Changes Hospital Name To Healthy Home For Jakarta, PDIP: It Can't Be Careless

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JAKARTA - Member of the PDIP faction of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Gilbert Simanjuntak, criticized DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's decision to change the name of the regional public hospital (RSUD) into a healthy home for Jakarta.

Gilbert asked Anies not to simply change the name of this local government hospital before coordinating with the Ministry of Health. Because, nationally, the name RS still means "hospital".

"Nationally, RS is still an acronym for hospital, not a healthy house. This means that DKI should not replace it carelessly without discussing this with a grammar expert and asking the Ministry of Health's opinion," Gilbert told reporters, Wednesday, August 3.

The council member who also works as an ophthalmologist believes that the double meaning used by Anies in the form of a healthy house and a hospital used by the private sector and other areas will confuse the public.

"The naming of a hospital as a healthy house will cause confusion. Interpreting hospital in English will have two meanings, a healthy house for the DKI Regional Hospital and a hospital for a hospital outside the RSUD, and both have different meanings. This will confuse those who attend school. This is the same like the meaning of a halfway house which is different from a residential house," explained Gilbert.

Regarding this, Gilbert suspects that the change in the name of the RSUD to a healthy house for Jakarta is Anies' way to divert issues in Jakarta that have become a public discussion, such as the collapse of the Jakarta International Stadium (JIS) tribune barrier.

"The impression that arises is that the policy is not wise, just a transfer of issues, for example from the JIS fence case which is called a masterpiece, but in fact it is not," he said.

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan changed the name of the regional general hospital (RSUD) to a healthy house for Jakarta. Rumah Sehat for Jakarta is a manifestation of the health services of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government as many as 31 hospitals.

Anies said that the change of the name of the hospital to a healthy house at a health service facility owned by the regional government was carried out to change the mindset of the community so that they not only visited when they were sick, but also in order to maintain and improve the quality of their health.

This was conveyed by Anies at the launch of the naming of a healthy house for Jakarta at Cengkareng Hospital, West Jakarta.

“So far, our hospital is curative and rehabilitative, so people come because they are sick and want to get well. Come to the hospital to get well, but to get well you have to be sick first. Well, on the other hand, in yesterday's pandemic, we witnessed the importance of maintaining health. Therefore, the role of the Healthy House is added, namely the promotive and preventive aspects," said Anies.

Anies hopes that this name change will succeed in making people think they are going to healthy homes to be healthier.

For example, by conducting medical and mental health check-ups, vaccination and immunization, and various other preventive promotive activities. So that this healthy home is designed to really make us oriented towards healthy living, not just oriented to recovering from illness.

“With this branding, we hope that people will view healthy homes from a different perspective. Moreover, in international language the hospital is defined as a hospital from hospitality, namely hospitality. It is hoped that through this name, conversations at home will also talk about being healthy, not sick, because our subconscious underlines that," said Anies.