For bolstering Indonesia's health resilience, various adequate policies have been issued...Jakarta (ANTARA) - Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono Harbuwono has asked medical experts and researchers to develop technological innovations to help realize the six pillars of the national health system transformation, specifically health resilience and health technology.
"For bolstering Indonesia's health resilience, various adequate policies have been issued, starting from increasing research and development, encouraging innovations, domestically producing health devices and medicines, as well as providing market guarantees," he said while making a virtual presentation on Saturday.
Among the innovations that are expected to be produced more are health screening devices that can detect diseases early to prevent them from becoming too severe.
To push biotechnology-based innovation, the Health Ministry has launched a national initiative called the Biomedical and Genome Science Initiative (BGSi).
The initiative aims to integrate genome sequencing data from all health ecosystems, including universities, hospitals, and the medical technology industry across Indonesia.
Later, the data can be used to diagnose diseases more accurately, improve the effectiveness of treatments, and develop precise therapy methods.
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Precise medical treatment is considered to be the future of the development of the health system in Indonesia, and is expected to help people get the most appropriate treatment to cure their illness.
An improvement in health screening technology is also still needed at the primary health service level, such as at community health centers (puskesmas), so that health services can benefit more people.
Increasing domestic technological research and innovation in the health sector would also encourage the absorption of domestic-made electronic products and other supporting components as well as improve the resilience of the health system in Indonesia.
Hence, Harbuwono said he expects that the research efforts will lead to the development of various domestically-made accurate and affordable health screening devices, which can be used in primary health services.
"Hopefully, we can jointly build a stronger and healthier Indonesian health system in the future," he added.
Meanwhile, the other four pillars of national health system transformation are the transformation of primary services, referral services, health financing system, and medical human resources.
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Translator: Livia Kristianti, Uyu Liman
Editor: Suharto
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