Central Sulawesi PPNI DPW Objects Nurse Incentives In Remote Areas Are Equated With Urban Areas

A nurse injects a vaccine to residents who take part in a mass COVID-19 vaccination (ANTARA)

PALU - The Indonesian National Nurses Association (PPNI) hopes that the provincial government of Central Sulawesi (Sulteng) will pay attention to the welfare of nurses. Until now there are not a few nurses who are still alive in apprehensive conditions.

Secretary of the Regional Management Board (DPW) PPNI Central Sulawesi Province Daeng Masri said the condition of nurses, especially those with honorary and contract status, was still far below the welfare of nurses with the status of state civil servants (ASN).

"Not to mention the condition of our nurses who serve in remote areas, which are in remote areas that are difficult to reach. That's why I don't agree that from a financial point of view, nurses who work in urban areas and those who work in remote areas that are difficult to reach, the incentives are the same. ," he said in Palu, Antara, Thursday, March 17.

He explained that nurses who provide health services to people in remote and rural areas are much more difficult to work than those in similar professions in urban areas.

"Nurses have to sacrifice time, energy, and even togetherness with their families to provide health services to the community. In fact, if there are people who need health services early in the morning, nurses inevitably have to serve," he said.

In terms of time, he said, nurses who work in various health facilities, such as community health centers (puskesmas) and hospitals, must work 24 hours in turn, so that people can get health services at any time.

In terms of energy, nurses must have a healthy, fit and excellent body condition considering that providing health services to the community is quite a draining job.

"So nurses must be healthy first before providing services to sick people," he said.