Questions The Rights To Handling COVID-19, Doctors And Health Workers At The Bukittinggi Hospital In West Sumatra Resah

The Bukittinggi COVID-19 Task Force Team, Deddy Herman, gave a statement to reporters regarding the alleged lack of medical services payments by the Bukittinggi Hospital on Friday.

SUMBAR - A number of health workers (nakes) including doctors who specialize in handling COVID-19 patients questioned their rights regarding medical service fees at the Achmad Mochtar Hospital (RSAM) Bukittinggi, West Sumatra (West Sumatra).

"We feel wronged because we were paid very low from the funds provided by the Indonesian Ministry of Health," said one of the specialist doctors at the Bukittinggi Hospital, West Sumatra, Friday, January 27, as reported by Antara.

He felt that the medical service money given to doctors and other medical personnel was very far from what it should have been. "We get an amount that is not clear and is not very appropriate with the risk of death. The comparison of doctors in other areas gets IDR 2.2 billion per three years since 2020, while we only receive IDR 300 million," he said.

He said, since being appointed as a Clinical Expert Team of the COVID-19 Task Force in Bukittinggi, he was willing to work sincerely. However, because of the assistance from the central government, he and other health workers need to fight for this right. "The funds have also been asked to the management of the Ministry of Health, from the Center, the budget is Rp. 7.5 million per patient per day. There is a component for doctors, nurses, labs and others. This is a big fund, our calculation if the total reaches Rp. 100 billion for three years, this has also been asked to the management of the hospital," he said. He said that the Central Government always reduced funds according to time with a value of Rp. 41 billion in 2022. While in 2021 it is at two times the number that was adjusted to the level of the COVID-19 outbreak at that time. "The director at that time said the distribution was 60 percent for service services and 40 medical services. If the figure was Rp. 100 billion, I should have calculated only Rp. 5 billion for medical services, where else was Rp. 35 billion," he said.

He questioned which rules were used by the Bukittinggi Hospital and he had contacted the central Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) as well as several senators in West Sumatra Province who were in charge of this problem. "Which rules are used, whether the Central Order rules can be changed to the Director's decision only, wouldn't that be the name of abuse of authority. We haven't reported to the Ombudsman, we are waiting for the provincial legislator to conduct a review to the hospital, we believe this will enter the KPK realm if proven," he said. He emphasized that he was ready to install the body and accepted the risk of defense to the doctor, nurse, cleaning officer, corpse founding officer and other health workers. Meanwhile, the Bukittinggi Hospital through the Head of General Section, Indra Sonny accompanied by the Public Relations Section of Public Relations, Arfida said that the distribution of medical services had been carried out according to the rules. "What we know is that there are rules, how many are in and out, everything is in accordance with the rules that are carried out officially, of course there are also internal rules as the divisor," he said. He said that the official submission would be delivered in the near future by the RSAM leadership to journalists. "The Director's contact is not at the current location and the complete answer can only be conveyed by the leadership, we ask for time," he concluded.