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JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy said that health transformation is needed to optimize the benefits of demographic bonuses so that Indonesia can become a developed country in 2045. Health transformation to prepare so that the demographic bonus momentum is really utilized or optimized later, and one of the most important sides in addition to other sectors is the health sector," said Muhadjir at the Presidential Palace Complex, Jakarta, Friday. Muhadjir said Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin had submitted a proposal to optimize health transformation programs to President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). Some important points of the proposal, said Muhadjir, among others, emphasis on the prevention side before treatment. "In addition, equitable access to health for the whole community must occur, our services must be fully evenly accessible to all citizens in accordance with our universal healthcare program, yes, health to serve all of that," he said. The Minister of Health, said Muhadjir, has also compiled a long-term health transformation, which among others, is prevention or decrease in the fatality of certain diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke and others.

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said strengthening efforts to prevent disease was necessary to follow up on Law Number 17 of 2023 concerning Health by issuing government regulations and proposals for programs that could be implemented until the end of President Joko Widodo's administration in 2024.

Mainly, because we want to enter the peak of the demographic bonus, if people are not healthy, not smart, we will lose the momentum to enter developed countries, for the desired Golden Indonesia. So, this health infrastructure, in the remaining time, must be accelerated," said the Minister of Health.

To optimize the health transformation, said the Minister of Health, the government also strengthens the capabilities of Puskesmas, Posyandu, as well as other health services that are for education and prevention. Through strengthening these prevention efforts, said Budi, people are encouraged to be diligent in examining their health conditions as an initial step in preventing a number of chronic diseases, such as stroke, heart disease, and cancer.


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