The ministry's Director General of Human Rights Dhahana Putra warned that failing to address bullying in medical specialty training effectively could harm the mental health of future specialist doctors and impact patient care.
"We can say this is a concrete form of the Health Ministry's protection for the human rights of the prospective specialist doctors," he noted in a statement from his ministry received here on Wednesday.
Putra assessed that Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin's efforts to thwart bullying are a form of respect, protection, enforcement, and fulfillment of human rights, as regulated in the 1945 Constitution.
Furthermore, he highlighted that it is also in accordance with Law Number 39 of 1999 on Human Rights, which emphasizes that every individual has the right to protection from treatments that degrade human dignity, including bullying.
"Prospective specialist doctors must have decent working conditions and, of course, be free from bullying," he emphasized.
He lauded the Health Minister's Instruction Number HK.02.01/MENKES/1512/2023 regarding the Prevention and Handling of Bullying against Students in Teaching Hospitals under the Ministry of Health.
He underscored the importance of conducting adequate and effective monitoring of the implementation of the instruction to prevent bullying.
Putra also invited prospective specialist doctors participating in medical specialty training to promptly report to the authority in the event of being bullied.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health received 211 complaints of bullying at hospitals operated under the ministry, which were filed through perundungan.kemkes.go.id as of August 9, 2024.
In a statement from the Health Ministry received on Tuesday (August 20), the ministry's spokesperson, Syahril, stated that based on the investigation of 156 cases of bullying, 39 resident doctors and teaching doctors have been sanctioned.
He pointed out that the types of bullying often reported are in the form of non-physical bullying, non-verbal bullying, mandating unreasonable working hours, giving tasks unrelated to training, and acts of intimidation.
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