Young Doctors Graduated From FK UI Ready To Be Sent To Rural Areas, Gus Minister: Interesting

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JAKARTA - There are still many villages that need health workers such as doctors. To overcome this, internship doctors who graduated from the UI Faculty of Medicine will be sent to remote villages.

The Ministry of Villages for Development of Disadvantaged Regions (Kemendes PDTT) is indeed exploring collaboration with FK UI to send young doctors to various remote villages. The availability of health workers is one of the main problems in health services at the village level.

"We are very grateful for the willingness of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia to work together in improving health services at the village level," said PDTT Village Minister Abdul Halim Iskandar, Wednesday, September 22.

The man who is usually called Gus Minister explained that his ministry already has Village SDGs data that can find out which areas lack health workers. He stated that a healthy and prosperous village is the third goal of the Village SDGs. According to him, the welfare of the villagers cannot be achieved without health.

In an effort to achieve the health of these citizens, there must be easy access to health services, both in terms of the availability of health workers and health facilities.

The results of basic health research show that the proportion of households experiencing difficulties in accessing health is still relatively high, at around 62.9 percent, which is divided into 36.9 percent in the difficult category, and 26 percent in the very difficult category.

Gus the Minister assessed that cooperation with universities such as FK UI was very much needed in accelerating the achievement of the Village SDGs.

"Interesting, of course we are very grateful and this is very encouraging, we imagine there are many things we can collaborate on," said Minister Gus when receiving a visit from the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine UI Prof. Ari Fahrial Syam, at the Kemendes PDTT Office, Kalibata.

Gus Minister explained the scheme of cooperation that will be explored with FK UI, namely FK UI preparing the doctors while the Ministry of Village PDTT prepares the data, which villages need health workers as the Village SDGs data.

Abdul Halim Iskandar

"I imagine that 2022 UI will prepare a number of doctors, we have maps, we also have data everywhere, because the APBDES is also prepared," he said.

The Dean of FK UI Prof Ari Fahrial said that UI routinely produces approximately 230 young doctors or so-called internship doctors every year. So far, they have been deployed to several health centers for professional education.

"The internship in question is an internship or practice program for young doctors who have completed their Koas, usually in a hospital that has a Practice Permit (SIP) such as a type C hospital within 1 year," he said.

The problem, said Ari Fahrial, is that many hospitals do not take full advantage of the presence of these doctors. They are still considered not fully doctors, so they only help the administration of the hospital where they practice.

"The majority of internship doctors are not utilized optimally according to their scientific discipline, of course this is a pity," he said.

Ari Fahrial assessed that these young doctors would be more useful if they were deployed to villages in Indonesia to be involved in developing villages, especially in the health sector.

"Of course, young and reliable and qualified doctors from FK UI can help our community, and hopefully with this collaboration in the future they will help a lot and do many things to help and develop villages," he also said.