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View all search resultsThe governments of Indonesia and the UAE have started building a cardiology hospital in Surakarta, Central Java, to increase treatment speed and combat the high heart disease death rate in the country.
In his annual State of the Nation address on Wednesday, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced a plan to allocate 5.6 percent of the 2024 state budget to the health sector, some Rp 186.4 trillion (US$12 billion).
The House of Representatives in February proposed a host of revisions to current healthcare laws, including making it easier for patients to bring criminal charges against healthcare workers for malpractice and allowing foreign talent to make up for staff shortages in Indonesia.
Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy made the announcement on Monday following a coordination meeting joined by Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo and head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Suharyanto.
The health minister appears to have backtracked on last month's comment about a special policy for wealthy subscribers, clarifying that the national healthcare agency will continue to provide basic health services under a standardized “universal” scheme that will eliminate the current three-tier health insurance.
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