Government Will Connect BPJS Health Data For Quick Detection Of Comorbid COVID-19 Cases

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JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan revealed that the government will connect BPJS Health data with the Ministry of Health's new all record (NAR) data collection for new cases of COVID-19.

Luhut said this data integration would provide a faster response to the treatment of COVID-19 cases, especially those with comorbidities.

In a sense, if there are new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health will immediately know if the person concerned has a history of comorbid disease. So, they immediately receive intensive care.

"We encourage data interconnection between BPJS Health which has comorbid data and data on additional cases in the Ministry of Health's NAR. So that if there are additional cases it is immediately detected whether the person is comorbid or not, and response actions can be taken quickly," said Luhut in a virtual press conference. , Monday, February 21.

Luhut stated that this effort was a follow-up to President Joko Widodo's directives. Jokowi asked his subordinates to reduce the risk of death for comorbid COVID-19 cases, the elderly, and people who have not been vaccinated.

"The President asked that the risk of death for the elderly, people who have not been vaccinated and have comorbidities to be reduced as much as possible with good handling. For this reason, the government will immediately take mitigation steps from this President's direction," he said.

Luhut said the majority of COVID-19 cases that died were those who had severe symptoms until death were identified as people who had not been vaccinated or had been vaccinated but not yet complete, had comorbidities, and were elderly.

Based on data compiled by the government, of the 2484 patients who died, 73 percent of them had not received the full dose of vaccination, 53 percent were elderly and 46 percent had comorbidities.

The comorbid patients who died in the hospital died an average of 5 days from admission to the hospital. Where, the most comorbid is diabetes mellitus.