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Ministry to prepare health reserves as backup when disaster strikes

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that the provision of human resources, as backup power, when a disaster ...

Ministries to complete study on PPKM termination this week: President

PPKM," he stated at the Merdeka Palace here on Wednesday. On the same occasion, Coordinating Minister for ...

Approach of Christmas, New Year puts focus on pandemic control

Transition 2. However, COVID-19 cases continued to increase until they peaked on February 6, 2021, reaching 176,433 ...

Indonesia needs thousands of specialist doctors: Health Minister

Indonesia needs thousands of specialist doctors to plug a shortage of medical personnel and address the uneven ...

Stunting remains state's concern despite declining prevalence: BKKBN

The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) has said that even though national stunting prevalence has ...

Poverty posing a hurdle to stunting alleviation efforts: BKKBN

Poverty has become a common enemy when it comes to efforts to expedite the alleviation of stunting, which is ...

Hospital-based education an effort to plug doctor shortage: Minister

The hospital-based medical specialist education system is the government’s latest strategy to increase the number ...

Bio Farma awaiting govt nod for IndoVac clinical trials on children

State-owned pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma is still awaiting approval from the government for conducting clinical ...

Stop open defecation to protect children from polio: Health Ministry

Indonesia's Ministry of Health has urged the community to stop the practice of open defecation in a bid to ...

Minister targets Aceh to complete polio immunization in a month

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin requested the implementation of the Polio National Immunization Sub Week in Aceh to ...

Polio vaccine side effects milder than disease: IDAI

Chairperson of the Indonesian Pediatrician Association (IDAI), Dr. Piprim Basarah Yanuarso, has asked citizens to not ...

APEC announces regional dashboard to track progress on immunization

APEC member economies announced a comprehensive dashboard to help measure their collective progress towards ...

New polio infections highlight importance of immunization: IDAI

 The detection of a new polio case  in Aceh highlights the need for immunization to prevent the spread of ...

Government responds to polio case with immunization in Aceh

The Indonesian Health Ministry is responding to polio case (KLB) with immunizations that will be carried out in Aceh ...

No additional acute kidney failure cases recorded in past fortnight

Health Ministry's spokesperson Mohammad Syahril confirmed that no new cases of acute kidney failure in ...