Director of Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Control at the Health Ministry Siti Nadia Tarmizi said the screening can be carried out at puskesmas so that intervention measures can be taken quickly if symptoms of kidney disease are detected.
Speaking at a press conference on World Kidney Day 2025 in Jakarta on Wednesday, Tarmizi said that those tests are prioritized for groups with certain risk factors.
Kidney health screenings under the CKG program, which officially started in February 2025, involve urea and creatinine tests.
She informed that currently, the screening focuses on detecting symptoms of diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and dyslipidemia, which also cause kidney disease risks.
"Thus, if a person is diabetic, has hypertension, is obese, and has dyslipidemia, the screening will be continued with kidney health screening through urea and creatinine tests," she added.
According to the Ministry of Health, the quota for the CKG program is 300 thousand people per day. As of Tuesday, 500 thousand people have registered for the screening in total, it said.
Director general of public health at the ministry, Maria Endang Sumiwi, highlighted the high quota of 300 thousand per day. However, only around 38 thousand to 40 thousand people register per day, she said.
She affirmed that the health system is capable of providing free screening services to 300 thousand people per day.
The ministry has also decided to no longer limit providing the service to people on their birthdays. The circular concerning the decision will be issued later.
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