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BPJS Health insurance shares experiences on health care with India

State-owned health insurance provider BPJS Health shared its experiences with the Indian health care authority to ...

Collaboration between govt, parties key to handling stunting

Collaboration between the government and all parties is the key to addressing the problems of malnutrition and ...

BPJS' Hackathon 2021 targets boosting IT innovation in health sector

Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) held a Hackathon 2021 competition for IT practitioners, CS, ...

Indonesia Healthtech Association to hold Health Technology Solution

Indonesia's Healthtech Association will hold the Health Technology Solution (HTS) 2021 from August 25-26, 2021 with ...

New COVID-19 variant B1525 identified in Batam of Riau Islands

B1525, a new variant of COVID-19, was detected in Batam in an Indonesian migrant worker in Malaysia that had returned ...

Non-communicable diseases burdening health insurance system: VP

Most claims filed under the National Health Insurance (JKN) program through the Health Care and Social Security Agency ...

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Indonesia set to forge forward in TB handling amid COVID-19 pandemic

Several nations observed Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 in a somber, concerned manner, as the fight against TB, one ...

VP urges puskesmas to strengthen public services

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has asked first-level health facilities (faskes), especially community health centers ...

Only 24% tuberculosis patients have accessed health service facilities

Only 24 percent of tuberculosis (TB) sufferers in Indonesia have accessed health service facilities, Director of ...

Indonesia still encumbered by triple burden of disease challenges: VP

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin pointed out that Indonesia continued to face health challenges posed by the triple ...

Malnutrition can raise risk of infectious, non-communicable diseases:

Malnutrition can raise the risk of health problems and infectious and non-communicable diseases, including ...

Obesity is on the rise in Indonesia: Health Ministry

Citing data, the Health Ministry pointed to a spike in cases of obesity in Indonesia, with one in three adults being ...

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A shot in the arm for COVID efforts

With the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine administered without any adverse incident, President Joko Widodo ...

Eye on herd immunity, govt aims to inoculate 181.5 million

The Indonesian government is targeting to inoculate 181.5 million people against COVID-19 in order to create herd ...

Health Ministry stresses regular health checks on World Diabetes Day

Director of non-communicable diseases prevention at the Ministry of Health, Cut Putri Ariane, urged Indonesians to get ...