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Hearing aid supply fails to meet global needs: Health Ministry

The current number of hearing aids could not meet the needs of all deaf patients worldwide, according to the Health ...

Health Ministry offers hotline for self-isolating patients

The Ministry of Health has provided a standby channel, or hotline, for people undergoing self-isolation due to COVID-19 ...

Java-Bali daily cases down in comparison with Delta's peak

Several areas in Java and Bali have started to record a decline in the number of cases of COVID-19 in contrast to the ...

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Govt bolsters strategies as Omicron wave sweeps Indonesia

Indonesia is currently witnessing the third wave of COVID-19 infections triggered by the Omicron variant, which, though ...

COVID-19 cases projected to increase in next few days: official

Health Ministry's Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Director, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, estimated that the number ...

Omicron positivity rate higher than Delta though BOR lower

The number of positive Omicron cases exceeded the Delta variant, though the bed occupancy rate (BOR) was lower than the ...

Jakarta's COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy rate declined to 59 percent

The bed occupancy rate (BOR) of treatment rooms in 140 COVID-19 referral hospitals in Jakarta reached 3,964 as of ...

1.6 million Aceh residents receive COVID-19 vaccine second dose

Merely 1,648,791 people, or 40.9 percent of the residents in Aceh province, had received the second dose of COVID-19 ...

Some 52.08 percent of children in Probolinggo vaccinated

Probolinggo has vaccinated 53,529 children in the age bracket of six to 11, or 52.08 percent of the total targeted ...

Bed occupancy up at West Jakarta COVID referral hospitals

The bed occupancy rate at West Jakarta's COVID-19 referral hospitals has increased in recent days, officials ...

Jakarta to prepare extra hospital beds to anticipate Omicron surge

The Jakarta Health Office has said that it will prepare extra hospital beds to boost capacity to 11,500 beds to ...

Jakarta's COVID-19 recovery percentage reaches 92.8 percent

The Jakarta Health Office reported that the COVID-19 patient recovery percentage within the capital city had reached ...

Cervical cancer deaths can be prevented with HPV vaccine: minister

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said that deaths caused by cervical cancer can be prevented with the help of ...

Health Ministry continue to push immunization against cervical cancer

The government is committed to expanding the socialization of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) immunization as a concrete ...

Ministry seeks improvement in early cancer detection services

Director-general of disease prevention and control at the Ministry of Health Maxi Rein Rondonuwu has asked all ...