Based on the results of the 2010 census, 262.6 out of every 100 thousand Indonesian citizens are nurses.Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The House of Representatives (DPR) is determined to pass the bill on nursing into law later this year, a lawmaker said.
"We, at the House of Representatives Commission IX, have set ourselves the target of completing deliberations on the bill on nursing later this year. We expect public supports and suggestions," member of the House Commission IX Herlini Amran said here on Thursday.
Herlini, who is also a member of the DPR`s working committee for the bill on nursing said the bill had been incorporated to the 2012 national legislation program (Prolegnas) as one of priority bills that must be endorsed into law this year.
The bill was completed in 1989 but it was submitted to the House only in 2004, she said.
"The working committee on the bill has begun deliberating on the bill at a meeting today. The meeting was led by Ahmad Nizar Shihab who had just been appointed as the committee`s chief replacing Ribka Tjiptaning," she said.
Data from the Health Ministry show the country, with a population of about 240 million, now has an estimated 624 thousand nurses and 70 doctors.
The large number of nurses served as potential to distribute medical workers to all parts of the country the more so because nurses represented 60 percent of the overall medical workers in the country, she said.
"Based on the results of the 2010 census, 262.6 out of every 100 thousand Indonesian citizens are nurses," she said.
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