Anticipating Bullying, Minister Of Health Will Set Work Hours For PPDS Participants

Minister of Health Budi G Sadikin (Between)

JAKARTA - Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin will arrange student working hours in the Specialist Doctors Education Program (PPDS) at the hospital (RS). This is to anticipate bullying in that place.

Budi said that the arrangement of working hours will be carried out through formal cooperation between hospitals under the ministry and the medical faculty.

"So that we can also help arrange the doctor's working hours. Because the doctor was not our previous employee, it was difficult to manage it," he said, quoting Antara.

If there has been an agreement with the medical faculty, his party through the hospital under the ministry can make a contract with all PPDS participants so that they can follow the hospital rules.

"The goal is how many times there are, we work there are limits, yes, how many times a week, if there is an overtime the next day we can come in the afternoon, so there is no excessive work," he said.

Hospitals under ministries directed to cooperate with medical faculties, he said, were asked to be used as one so that policies could be uniform.

"In the past, it was alone, now it's just one thing, let the rules be the same," he said.

Regarding bullying in PPDS, Budi appreciated the Faculty of Medicine, Padjadjaran University (FK Unpad) who immediately took action when finding the case.

"That's good Unpad, it's been discovered, you don't have to be told to be immediately sanctioned, that's great," he said.

Met at another location, Dean of FK Unpad Yudi Mulyana Hidayat said related to bullying in PPDS, his party not only gave sanctions, but also looked for the root of behavior problems that made this habit in the medical environment.

"In the past, it didn't smell like a financial thing. For example, my class, for example, came late, the sentence was ordered to make patient status 10 people, but that's positive, right. So we have to find the cause and find a solution, we have to eradicate it," he said.

As a concrete step, his party together with the hospital, especially the Central General Hospital Dr Hasan Sadikin (RSHS) Bandung, have identified problems and planned to do various things, such as providing incentives to PPDS participants.

"Because the resident doctor is in school but he also works to serve patients, so it must be appreciated, maybe they will be given incentives, right? They don't get money from anywhere, while they are in Hasan Sadikin's (RS) carrying out their duties, eating and drinking, and so on, all kinds of things come out," he said.

Furthermore, he said, the arrangement of working hours is to be more efficient, effective, and humane in working or undergoing education.

"For example, if they are on duty tonight, they are required to rest the next day and so on. So that's what we are doing that we can solve," he said.

In addition, the Disciplinary, Ethics and Anti-Violence Commissions were formed by the Faculty of Medicine and RSHS as a team of extension workers, complaint centers, and investigators for alleged bullying.

"We also provide assistance, including the law on the victim. Even if the perpetrator is listed as part of the campus, we will let go, whoever is ordered to bully (do bullying) right," he said.

So far, the PPDS under Unpad has revealed allegations of bullying in two departments, namely neurosurgeon and urology. In the case in the full surgical department, 10 people were sanctioned and one lecturer is still waiting for sanctions to be imposed, while in the urology department seven perpetrators were given sanctions with a warning letter by the faculty.