Still In The Process Of Calculating, The Abepura Hospital In Papua Baru Services COVID-19 For Health Workers On December 22-23

Director of Abepura Hospital Daisy Urbinas (yellow batik) when meeting dozens of health workers (Nakes) at Abepura Hospital/ANTARA

PAPUA - The Abepura Regional General Hospital (RSUD), Jayapura City, Papua, will pay for COVID-19 services for health workers who have been tasked with serving COVID-19 patients in the region. Abepura Hospital Director Daisy Urbinas said that currently her party was conducting calculations regarding the services of COVID-19 patients and then handed over to BPJS Kesehatan for verification. "So that the COVID-19 service will soon be paid on December 22 or 23, 2022," he said during a meeting with dozens of health workers (Nakes) at the Abepura Hospital who questioned the COVID-19 incentives in Jayapura, Antara, Friday, December 16. According to Daisy, COVID-19 services are different from COVID-19 incentives. Incentives are only given to five health workers in each hospital, namely doctors, nurses, laboratory officers, radiographers and pharmacists. "So only the five professions have received incentives while other professions cannot," he said. He explained that COVID-19 services are direct transfer funds from the Ministry of Health to hospital accounts and then paid to health workers, so that on December 23, 2022, his party immediately pays them to health workers who have been tasked with serving COVID-19 patients. "Meanwhile, the COVID-19 incentive is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health, but only until July 2020 and now we only pay for COVID-19 services," he said. He added that from August to December 2022 the COVID-19 incentives were returned to their respective Regional Governments (Pemda) in all provinces in Indonesia to be paid or not. "We have verified it and submitted it to the Papua Provincial Health Office and then the Health Office will verify the data and then submit it to the local government," he said.