Jayawijaya, Papua (ANTARA) - Residents in 13 sub-districts of Jayawijaya District, Papua Province, have yet to receive healthcare services from public health centers, or locally known as "puskesmas," owing to the absence of those medical facilities.

According to the Jayawijaya Health Office Head, Willy Mambieuw, the district has 40 sub-districts, though puskesmas are found in only 27 of them.

Mambieuw did not elaborate on the 27 sub-districts that have the community health centers and those with no such medical facilities.

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"Ideally, one sub-district has one public health center. However, only 27 sub-districts have public health centers," Mambieuw noted in a statement that ANTARA quoted here, Wednesday.

Of the 27 public health centers, several do not have full-time general practitioners, specialist doctors, and pharmacists.

In addition, only 17 out of the 27 public health centers have been registered at the Indonesian Health Ministry, so they are eligible for receiving the central government's assistance, he noted.


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Translator: Marius FY, Rahmad Nasution
Editor: Fardah Assegaf
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