The facility was part of the hospital`s efforts to provide better services to the public, the hospital`s director, Made Ambaryati said here on Sunday.
The hospital was declared a public service body on January 1, 2012.
"With the status, we must commit ourselves to improve the quality of our services to the public," she said.
The awarding of the new status to the hospital accorded with article 7 section (3) of Law No. 44/2009 on hospitals, she said.
The law stipulated that any hospital set up by the central or regional government as referred to in section (2) of the article shall come in the form of technical executive unit of the agency overseeing the health sector, certain agency or regional technical institution, she said.
Since the hospital was declared a public service body in January 2012, the hospital has become a self-financing body so it was no longer obliged to help the local government achieve the target of regional income receipts, she said.
In addition to the blood bank, the hospital would also build an intensive care unit (ICU) using grants from state oil and gas company Pertamina, she said.
(Uu.S012/HAJM)
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