The COVID-19 Task Force Ensures The Government Coordinates With The Local Government So That Incentives For Health Workers Are Provided On Time

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JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Task Force (Task Force) Handling COVID-19 Wiku Adisasmito confirmed that incentives for health workers (health workers) will be distributed properly and on time. Moreover, health workers have been struggling to provide the best service for COVID-19 patients.

This was conveyed by Wiku in response to the polemic of cutting incentive value for health workers based on the Minister of Finance Decree number: S-65 / MK.02 / 2021 and stated that the incentive for health workers to be received in 2021 was 50 percent lower than that received in 2020.

"The government, through the Ministry of Health, continues to coordinate with local governments to ensure that incentive funds for health workers can be distributed properly and on time," said Wiku in a press conference broadcast online on the Presidential Secretariat YouTube account, Thursday, February 4.

He asked health care facilities to immediately meet the required administrative requirements. "So that this incentive fund can be received by health workers," he said.

Previously reported, the government has canceled the cut in the amount of incentives for health workers. The Ministry of Finance stated that the incentives for health workers to handle COVID-19 are still of the same value as those in 2020.

According to the Director General of Budget at the Ministry of Finance Askolani, the incentive value for health workers currently paid has not changed.

"We emphasize that currently there has been no policy change regarding health worker incentives. Therefore, the incentives will remain the same in 2021 and are the same as those given in 2020," he said, in a virtual press conference on Explanation of Health Personnel Incentives, Thursday, February 4.

Askolani said the government is providing special incentives for health workers who are vaccinators for the COVID-19 vaccination program in 2021.

He also claims this proves that the government is consistently paying attention to health workers who are at the forefront.

"So for the vaccination staff, the government will also appreciate it," he said.

The government, said Askolani, realizes that with the development of the COVID-19 case which is still very dynamic in the country, a large additional budget is needed to handle health.

For this reason, this year's health budget from previously allocated Rp169 trillion has increased to around Rp254 trillion.