This is a discourse that needs to be prepared if we decide to create the health sector omnibus law to support the independence of the pharmacy and health device industry
Jakarta (ANTARA) - House of Representatives' (DPR's) Commission IX deputy speaker, Emanuel Melkiades Laka Lena, spoke of the House contemplating on creating an omnibus law for health sector regulations at an event observed from here on Monday.

With the omnibus law for the health sector, the entire ministry and institution is expected to cooperate with one another to create a more adaptive health sector that has high resilience, including when it faces the pandemic.

"This is a discourse that needs to be prepared if we decide to create the health sector omnibus law to support the independence of the pharmacy and health device industry," Lena noted.

According to the House Deputy Speaker, this independence could make the nation better equipped in responding to health problems in the country, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moreover, the DPR Commission IX will continue to support the regulation made by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Industry to support the national pharmacy industry to become self-reliant, he affirmed.

Currently, the Commission is also encouraging the two ministries to promptly create a road map for a realistic national health system transformation.

The two ministries are expected to make the most of the momentum presented by the COVID-19 pandemic to achieve independence in the national health device and pharmacy industry, he stated.

After two years of weathering the pandemic, the government should have mapped the progress of the domestic pharmacy industry's self-reliance.

For instance, a chart should be in place that lays out the nation's progress in terms of medicine raw material or domestic traditional medicine utilization, so that we understand that we have made progress, he affirmed.

Furthermore, the commission also supports identifying and researching Indonesia's natural resources that could potentially be used as traditional medicine or modern medicine originally made by Indonesia.

These medicines could be used in formal health services to improve or recover the patient's health.

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