"Since RSCM is the biggest hospital in Indonesia, we need to manage its service. We start by constructing this Kanigara building," Finance Minister Sri Mulyani stated during the inauguration of Kanigara Building at RSCM in Jakarta on Friday.
The project, which utilized Rp348.7 billion of the state budget, is located on the south side of the RSCM Complex spanning a total area of 12.5 hectares in Central Jakarta. The building has 12 floors that integrate several services under one roof, the minister noted.
Mulyani explained that in the early stages, the building will provide services, such as various comprehensive services for uro-nephrology, comprising evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of urology conditions in adults and children as well as acute and chronic kidney conditions.
Moreover, in the field of hepatology, services for illnesses in the stomach, liver, and pancreas will be provided. Furthermore, services will be offered for diabetes patients.
The minister is optimistic that Kanigara Building would become part of sustainable development and improvement to help the hospital becomes a world-class referral hospital.
On the same occasion, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin remarked that out of a total of 12 floors, currently, eight had been built in the last four months.
"There are still four floors left. We will complete building all of them immediately to provide the best services for patients. Currently, the ICU room and the surgery room are already available," he noted.
In the future development plan, Sadikin said there will be 36 additional surgery rooms, with 18 of them having been completed and can be used for patients of the National Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan).
He noted that the construction of Kanigara Building had been neglected for the last 11 years due to problems in the project budgeting process.
"Since I saw (that work on) this building was not completed, we decided to build it quickly. Thank God, the RSCM team was able to work fast and complete it in four months," he remarked.
He remarked that the main obstacle behind the building's abandonment was an inappropriate budget planning process.
"At that time, the budget was not calculated properly. Thus, the project was neglected. We must avoid this problem in future," he emphasized.
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