"Starting from primary services, we will truly strengthen puskesmas (public health centers) starting from their health education to primary and secondary prevention, including increasing the human resources there," he informed.
The government is currently striving to resolve the issue concerning the lack of health workers at puskesmas despite the fact that there are many graduates from health polytechnics, he said.
Health human resources management should be transformed, starting from health workers' assignment planning to their distribution, in order to cover all regions of Indonesia, he added.
In addition, the government will continue to transform referral services by making their access easier through network creation wherein the most chronic disease referral services will be in city centers, Rondonuwu informed.
"Then, we will transform the health system, as we learned from the pandemic that cities experienced difficulty with mask and protection equipment," he added.
"To this end, health device and pharmacy resiliency will be the option going forward in how we can manage independently," he said.
The government will drive the production of pharmaceutical and health equipment in regions, he added.
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At the same time, emergency response services and reserve health human resources will also be bolstered by involving students, the army, and the police, the official said.
Health financing will also be transformed especially concerning improving the effectiveness of the Healthcare and Social Security Agency's (BPJS Kesehatan) financing, Rondonuwu said. In this case, BPJS will also participate in preventing the spread of diseases, he informed.
The ministry will transform the health technology, he added.
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