Regarding The Health Bill, The Minister Of Health Explains The Most Hospital Services Get Public Input

Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin. (doc Setkab)

JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin revealed that the topic of hospital service received the most attention from public input during the public hearing of the Draft Health Law (RUU).

"The 25 most crowded topics that we get input from public hearings, websites, and letters, namely regarding hospitals, health workers, abortions, social security systems, and drug and pharmaceutical independence," said the Minister of Health during a meeting with Commission IX of the DPR at the DPR Building, Wednesday, April 5, which was confiscated by Antara.

Meanwhile, the top topics that enter through the Ministry of Health website are related to the grouping and qualification of health human resources, registration and licensing, BPJS and hospitals.

"There is a very high topic because there is a group of health technology that wants to become its own health workers. He bombarded our website with submissions from robots, so the input is the most," he said.

The Ministry of Health has held public participation and socialization of the Health Bill on March 13-31, 2023, involving 115 public participation activities, 1,200 invited policy makers, and 72,000 participants.

From this series of activities, the Ministry of Health has collected 6,011 inputs related to the Health Bill through public hearing activities. About 75 percent of them have been followed up based on the results of consideration and explanation.

As is known, issues related to hospitals were widely discussed by the public after the government conveyed news about the phenomenon of patients seeking treatment abroad.

Meanwhile, the issue of health workers is related to the unequal number of specialist doctors and doctors, up to expensive medical education costs.

The DPR officially sent a draft of the Health Bill to the government last week for discussion, after the bill was passed as an initiative of the DPR at a plenary session in February 2023.

The President has appointed Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin as the coordinator of the government's representative to discuss this bill with the DPR.

Other appointed ministers are the Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, the Minister of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform, the Minister of Home Affairs, the Minister of Finance, as well as the Minister of Law and Human Rights.