Doctor's Needs Are Still High, The Requirements For Running A Profession Should Be Made Easier

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JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Doctors Association (PDSI) Brigadier General TNI (Ret.) Dr. Jajang Edi Priyatno Sp.B., MARS said the requirements for doctors to carry out their professions must be made easier considering the high needs of doctors in Indonesia.

"The doctor's requirements for carrying out his profession must be facilitated and even facilitated, so that doctors can be free to provide health services," said Jajang in a written statement received in Jakarta, Saturday, March 4.

If there are things that need to be regulated to avoid various negative impacts, Jajang continued, then the state through the government that regulates this, is not left to community organizations (ormas) to determine the fate of doctors and health fate in Indonesia.

For this reason, PDSI encourages the government to take over all strategic matters related to doctors, both licensing, education, placement, and so on.

"If the government gives strategic matters to mass organizations, the issue of Indonesian medicine will remain like this, where many doctors feel constrained by the rules of mass organizations," said Jajang.

"The doctor's school is already difficult, wanting to do activities is made difficult again, how can services be fast, cheap, and quality if doctors are burdened with inappropriate administrative problems," added Jajang.

According to Jajang, the existence of PDSI cannot be separated from the experience experienced by thousands of doctors in Indonesia who are trapped in complexities to carry out activities as doctors, according to their potential and expertise.

Jajang explained that professional standardization for doctors is through education obtained in legal educational institutions, so that when a doctor completes all requirements from educational institutions, it will automatically meet the standards set by the government through educational institutions.

"In the event that the government sees the need to test competence for the needs of health workers, it is a domain of the government, not a domain of mass organizations," he said.

According to him, it is very bad when PDSI, for example, is given the authority to regulate the fate of doctors, whether they can practice or not, be competent or not, while when it comes to welfare and so on, let go and be taken care of by the government.

"If the government sees the need for an institution that specifically takes care of doctors, please form a body for that, which is under the government, the same as other agencies that use the state budget, so that public accountability is maintained," he said.