JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes), Budi Gunadi Sadikin was furious with the practice of bullying experienced by specialist doctor education programs (PPDS). It was also revealed the surprising fact that senior doctors made guided books that tended to contain potential specialist doctors. "In the guidebook listed, we had to buy this, rent it. After we examined, PPDS participant doctors were asked to spend up to tens of millions per month or even hundreds of millions per year," Budi said in his statement, Thursday. The form of bullying experienced by other PPDS students was that potential specialist doctors were often called with animal names by seniors. Budi admitted that miris saw the findings that had demeaned humans, especially when it happened in hospitals under the auspices of the Ministry of Health. Advertisement'' I cannot allow in hospitals that the Ministry of Health to occur practices that do not show the culture of the Indonesian nation, noble character, but instead are full of racial insults, words that call his juniors under the name of animals,'' said Budi. According to Budi, the discovery of this bullying practice occurred in early 2023, when the virality of a young doctor in a hospital provided an unfavorable response to patients outside the hours of duty. Apparently, it was found that the young doctor gave an unfavorable response due to pressure due to bullying by his seniors. This has resulted in patient relatives who received such doctors' anger. Inspector General of the Ministry of Health, Murti Utami said that so far the Ministry of Health has received as many as 91 reports of alleged bullying experienced by PPDS students. Murti conveyed, the form of bullying to PPDS students in hospitals under the a shelter of the Ministry of Health is fairly diverse. Among them the financial requests for potential specialists related to services or research, which should not be done or subject to. In addition, specialist doctors also get pressure to carry out excessive hospitalization times or beyond reasonable limits. The Ministry of Health since July 2023 has opened various complaint channels, including through an application and official website of the Ministry of Health.

"We have validated 44 reports of alleged bullying in hospitals managed by the Ministry of Health. A total of 12 reports occurred in three hospitals and we have completed the investigation. Meanwhile, 32 reports in eight hospitals are in the process of being investigated," said Murti Utami. The three hospitals that received warnings from the Ministry of Health were Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) Jakarta, Hasan Sadikin Hospital (RSHS) Bandung, and Adam Malik Hospital Medan.


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