Bogor COVID-19 Task Force Opens Complaint Service For PCR Test Prices Above IDR 495 Thousand

Bogor Regent Ade Yasin/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

CIBINONG - The Bogor Regency COVID-19 Handling Task Force, West Java, has opened a complaint service for findings that the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test rate is above the highest rate of IDR 495 thousand.

"The task force has also opened a complaint service for PCR test rates, you just need to make a complaint to the emergency service number of the Task Force in their respective areas," said Bogor Regent Ade Yasin, who is also the head of the Bogor Regency COVID-19 Task Force, quoted by Antara, Thursday, August 19.

Ade Yasin said his party had optimized the emergency services of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force at the village level since the rate of transmission of COVID-19 cases had soared again. By optimizing emergency services, people exposed to COVID-19 can be more easily monitored.

"There must be someone who can be contacted at the village or sub-district level to serve the COVID-19 problem," said Ade Yasin.

In addition, he admitted that he would be diligent in checking various health care facilities (fasyankes) to ensure the price of the PCR test was in accordance with the one that had been directly set by President Joko Widodo alias Jokowi.

For information, the Ministry of Health has issued a circular that stipulates the highest price limit for PCR tests in Indonesia and will take effect on Tuesday, August 17.

Director General of Health Services Abdul Kadir asked the Health Office in each region to oversee the implementation of the regulation.

This regulation was issued after President Joko Widodo asked the Ministry of Health to lower the price of RT PCR from the initial maximum limit of Rp. 900 thousand, to the range of Rp. 450 thousand to Rp. 550 thousand.

The evaluation was immediately carried out by the Ministry of Health together with BPKP. As a result, the Ministry of Health announced that the highest price for RT PCR was IDR 495,000 for Java and Bali and IDR 525,000 for areas outside Java and Bali.