It's Sad To Hear That Thousands Of Health Workers In Tanjungpinang Have Not Received Incentives

It's sad to hear that thousands of health workers in Tanjungpinang have not received incentives. (Illustration of Antara photo)

TANJUNGPINANG - Around 2,900 health workers (Nakes) in Tanjungpinang City, Riau Islands have not received incentives since January 2021 until now. Tanjungpinang Regional Secretary Teguh Ahmad Syafari in Tanjungpinang, Monday said the budget to pay for the health hero incentives was sourced from unexpected funds from the 2021 APBD.

The incentive payments are prioritized for health workers who work at Tanjungpinang Hospital. But Teguh doesn't know how much it is worth. "It's still in the disbursement process. Hopefully it will be disbursed soon," he said.

Head of the Disease Control and Eradication Division at the Tanjungpinang Health Office, Susi, said that until now the health workers' incentives have not been disbursed. Susi does not question it, and considers it as an incentive that it will be carried out at the time of disbursement.

So far, according to him, no health workers in Tanjungpinang have objected to the delay in disbursing the incentives. All health workers continue to work according to their duties.

He also denied that the health workers in Tanjungpinang were slow to trace residents who had contact with COVID-19 patients as a result of not receiving the incentives. According to him, all health workers continue to work optimally in carrying out searches of residents who are in close contact with COVID-19 patients.

The search problem, he said, was caused by data from hospital laboratories that had not been or were not submitted to the Tanjungpinang Health Office. If submitted, health workers can conduct searches based on that data. "Like the data from the RSAL laboratory, there were 40 positive people, then we carried out maximum searches to break the chain of transmission," he explained.