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Bali seeks to reduce stunting to 7.71% in 2023

The head of the Bali Provincial Health Service I Nyoman Gede Anom has said that the service is targeting to ...

7,000 babies dying yearly due to lack of specialists: health minister

At least 7,000 babies die each year of congenital heart disease in Indonesia due to a lack of cardiologists and low ...

COVID treatment funding to remain until regulation revoked: ministry

The mechanism for government financing of COVID-19 treatment will end only if the related regulations are officially ...

Will review continuation of COVID treatment funding: government

The government will soon review whether or not it needs to continue funding COVID-19 patients’ treatment in 2023 ...

Financing mechanism for COVID-19 patients similar to other diseases

The financing mechanism for COVID-19 patients will be equalized with that for other diseases from 2023, Head of the ...

JKN Statistics Book expected to support policymaking: Ministry

The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture has said that it expects all stakeholders to refer to the ...

Human Rights Day to boost services for recovering victims: LPSK

The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) said the commemoration of Human Rights Day, observed every December 10, ...

Ministry to prepare five provincial hospitals for heart disease

The Health Ministry and state-owned Harapan Kita Central General Hospital (RSUP) will prepare provincial hospitals in ...

Government pushes domestic health system toward prevention, screening

The government currently pushes the domestic health system toward disease prevention and screening rather than ...

Gov't asks CEOs to get into promotive, preventive health businesses

While attending a chief executive officer (CEO) forum on Friday, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin invited several ...

JKN members with nine special conditions need no referral

Patients of the National Health Insurance (JKN)  with nine health disorder conditions can be handled by hospitals ...

BPJS Kesehatan, UNS sign MoU on JKN

State-run Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) has entered into a collaboration with Sebelas Maret ...

Gov't shows resilience in handling cervical cancer through vaccination

The Health Ministry stated that provision of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was a form of resilience by the ...

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Tackling mysterious acute kidney injury in 241 Indonesian children

In October 2022, Indonesians were appalled by the Kanjuruhan football stadium stampede claiming 134 lives in Malang, ...

Government handles TB spread through name-, address-based surveillance

The Indonesian Government is committed to handling the spread of tuberculosis (TB) disease cases through a good ...