JAKARTA - Around 6,000 of the 10,000 Puskesmas in Indonesia do not have dentists. President Prabowo Subianto ordered SOEs to prepare mobile dental health services to help overcome this shortage.
The Minister of State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi said data from the Minister of Health showed that new dentists were available at around 40 percent of Puskesmas.
"60 percent or approximately 6,000 of our health centers do not or have not had dentists," said Prasetyo at the Presidential Palace Complex, Jakarta, Saturday, August 15.
According to Prasetyo, dental health problems are also among those that are often found through the Free Health Check program.
The question is, adding the number of doctors takes time. Prasetyo said that the education of doctors to be able to practice on average takes six to seven years.
Therefore, the government is looking for ways to help public services while the process of printing new doctors is underway.
"The President has also ordered and is being worked on by our SOEs to create a kind of mobile dentist, so a car for treatment or health care for traveling doctors," he said.
The program is still in the process. Dental equipment, said Prasetyo, is different from general health service equipment.
The government has also begun to accelerate the education of doctors in a number of medical faculties, including by increasing the quota for the admission of prospective doctors.
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