Minister Of Health Is Proud Of The Positive Effects Of Health Transformation
Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin (Photo via Ministry of Health)

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin explained that the health transformation in the six pillars carried out by the government began to show a definite impact on the community.

"We want to make sure that our mothers and children are well cared for. We have only 10 thousand we distribute to 300 thousand posyandu so that all pregnant women can be examined with ultrasound," Budi said at the 2022 Performance Press Conference and the 2023 Working Program of the Ministry of Health, Thursday, January 5, as reported by Antara.

In the pillars of the transformation of primary services, the Ministry of Health strengthens preventive promotive efforts and brings access to health services through revitalization of 300 thousand posyandu equipped with quality health cadres and medical devices such as ultrasound and cardiac examination devices.

Posyandu services are also made to focus more on preventive promotive efforts such as screening and surveillance, for all life cycles ranging from baby to elderly and managing the laboratory system. The Ministry of Health added three types of routine immunization during BIAN, the implementation of Active Case Finding (ACF) Tuberculosis and held five stunting prevention movements.

It was recorded that as many as 685,250 or 70.7 percent of the estimated 969,000 cases of TB had been found. Even until the end of December 2022, about 75.5 percent of toddlers have been monitored for routine growth in posyandu.

In the transformation of referral services, the Ministry of Health evenly flattens health care facilities for four catastropic specialist services, namely heart, stroke, cancer, and kidneys, the number of which is still very limited and not evenly distributed.

The Ministry of Health encourages referral services to be accessible to all patients in remote parts of Indonesia by distributing assistance for the fulfillment of priority disease medical devices, assistance in heart catheterization and open heart surgery.

The Ministry of Health even collaborated with 24 governors to develop RSUD as a referral service network with details of 24 provinces of heart services, stroke in 13 provinces, cancer in 12 provinces, and uronefrology in seven provinces, as well as holding heart catheterization assistance programs in 37 hospitals and strokes in three hospitals.

Then the transformation of the national resilience system, all medical devices and medicines are starting to be produced domestically by facilitating change source to increase the use of local Drug Baku Materials (BBO). Several companies have been able to produce drugs, vaccines and medical devices such as 2D ultrasound, Set and Autoclave Antropometry in Indonesia. The Ministry of Health has also launched backup health workers through MOU with BMKG and BNPB.

In the transformation of the financing system, including the budget of the health office, it will begin to be tidied up so that overlapping does not occur.

Meanwhile, in the transformation of human resources, the Ministry of Health focuses on increasing the number of doctors by facilitating the adaptation of doctors who graduated abroad, increasing the scholarship quota for specialist doctors, sub-specialists, and opening an inter-insip program for doctors, specialist doctors and personnel.

In the transformation of health technology, the Ministry of Health has launched ONE HEALTH, which until the end of 2022 there have been 2,893 health centers and 370 hospitals in Java-Bali ready to be integrated. And the Biomedical & Genome Science Initiative (BGSi) to detect potential diseases so that their precision and treatment will also be more accurate in the future.

"We hope that this year, one-HOUSE integration will start leaving Java-Bali," he said.


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