Become Minister Of Health Again In The Prabowo-Gibran Red And White Cabinet, Budi Sadikin Pursues 3 Acceleration Programs

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin (left) while greeting a number of officials from the Ministry of Health / DOK ANTARA

JAKARTA - Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin (BGS) said, under the leadership of Prabowo Subianto, his party was pursuing three acceleration programs (Quik Win), namely health screening, construction of hospitals in the regions, and handling tuberculosis.

Budi said that the most important thing for the Ministry of Health is to keep the community healthy, not just treating the sick. Thus, promotive and preventive actions such as routine screening are much more important than curative ones.

"We have to take care of puskesmas, posyandu, not only taking care of hospitals. All health workers, midwives, nurses, general practitioners who are at the puskesmas, must get more attention," said Budi at the Ministry of Health Office, Jakarta, Monday, October 21.

The second program, he said, is to build hospitals, especially in disadvantaged, outermost, and archipelago areas, so that people there can get the same access to health as people in urban areas.

In this regard, his party identified 40 areas where hospital construction needs to be rushed.

"The number three, he also entrusted it so that tuberculosis is handled more quickly. This is an infectious disease with the most deaths in the world. Far above Covid. 1 billion people have died since 100 years ago. And this disease is not lost in Indonesia," he added.

Budi said they were targeting that by 2028 the TB vaccine would be completed, and 2029 could be provided to the public.

In addition to the third, he mentioned that the President asked him to ensure the availability of specialist doctors and doctors to complete the hospital-RS.

"We made 10 thousand health centers, 50 percent of them were not dentists, even though they should have been there. That's what he asked for acceleration," he said.

Previously, Budi Gunadi Sadikin served as Minister of Health in the Advanced Indonesia Cabinet in 2020-2024, accompanied by Dante Saksono Harbuwono as a representative. Budi and Dante were again appointed as Minister of Health and Deputy Minister of Health in the Red and White Cabinet for 2024-2029.