Ministry Of Health Launches Farmaplus 2.0 To Check Prices And Availability Of Drugs

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) has launched the Farmaplus 2.0 web page which can be used by the public to check the availability and price of drugs at various health service facilities and pharmacies in Indonesia.

Laman web Farmaplus 2.0 menjadi gerbang satu pintu bagi masyarakat untuk mendapatkan informasi ketersediaan dan harga obat di berbagai fasilitas pelayanan kesehatan dan apotek di Indonesia. Laman web ini dapat diakses melalui https://farmaplus.kemkes.go.id/medicine dan telah terintegrasi dengan aplikasi SATUSEHAT.

"Farmaplus 2.0 can be accessed in the form of websites and features on mobile apps," said Expert Staff of the Minister of Health for Health Technology Setiaji as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, December 5.

Setiaji said the Ministry of Health has increased its choice for the public to be able to access drug information. Drug information on Farmaplus 2.0 is equipped with drug names, descriptions, general indications, composition, warnings, drug side effects, prices, and information on health service facilities that provide drugs, including addresses, websites, along with contact numbers.

To make it easier for the public to get information, he said, the contacts of health service facilities listed on Farmaplus 2.0 have also been connected to booking services via WhatsApp. Thus, the public can directly ask health service facilities and related pharmacies.

Currently, there are 2,688 drugs based on brands or trademarks that air on the Farmaplus 2.0 website. The medical indications that currently can be traced include cancer, heart disease, stroke, and uronefrology.

In addition, the public can also conduct searches based on provinces and regencies/cities to find out the nearest health service facilities and pharmacies that provide medicine.

In the same statement, the Director General of Pharmacy and Medical Devices at the Indonesian Ministry of Health Rizka Andalucia said that people can get drugs more quickly, easily, and affordablely through Farmaplus 2.0.

"Improving access and the ease of the community getting medicine is one of our priorities. Through Farmaplus 2.0, we hope that the public will find it easier to access information on the availability of drugs and the price is transparent," he said.