Surabaya City Government Targets All Hospitals To Participate In The JKS Program

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SURABAYA - The Special Committee for the Accountability Report of the Mayor of Surabaya in 2021 is targeting all hospitals in the City of Heroes to participate in the free health service program in the form of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) or universal health insurance (JKS). Baktiono in Surabaya, Friday, April 14, said that the special committee had collected 17 hospitals in Surabaya that had not cooperated with BPJS Kesehatan in relation to the JKS program. Of the eight hospitals, two of them are reluctant to cooperate with BPJS Kesehatan," said Baktiono, who is also the chairman of Commission C of the Surabaya DPRD, quoted by Antara. The reason he was reluctant to join, he continued, was because of internal problems at the hospital. Even though these two hospitals have been accredited and meet the requirements. The two hospitals so far in handling patients are not covered by the National Health Insurance (JKN). in the form of a free service by showing an identity card or known as UHC or JKS. For this reason, Baktiono emphasized, his party recommended a time limit of up to 1 month ahead for the two hospitals to immediately cooperate with BPJS Health.

"If you don't cooperate within a month, it means that this hospital is only looking for profit, it doesn't fulfill the social aspect," he said. In addition, he said, his party asked the Surabaya Health Office to communicate with the two hospitals so that willing to join the UHC program. If needed, he continued, the Surabaya Health Office sent a letter to the East Java Health Office asking not to issue an operational permit before joining the UHC program. "Because the Eri-Armuji campaign program for treatment only shows that the ID card has not run optimally. That's why we finished it," he said. The head of the Surabaya City Health Office, Nanik Sukristina previously said, since the UHC program was introduced to the public on April 1, 2021, his party has carried out socialization to hospitals "There are two reasons why they (hospitals) have not cooperated, namely first because the owner has not approved it. Then because the hospital has not met the BPJS Health credential requirements so it cannot cooperate," said However, continued Nanik, slowly several hospitals are showing positive progress. "We will be assisted by the DPRD to strengthen the encouragement for cooperation by the hospital," said Nanik.