COVID-19 treatment free at referral medical facilities: job force

The patients are by no ways liable to treatment costs. It is the referral healthcare facilities that will claim the treatment expenses from the director general of the Health Ministry, with copies (of claims) addressed to BPJS Kesehatan (Healthcare and Social Sec

Jakarta – The Job Force for COVID-19 Action has actually ensured that coronavirus clients treated at recommendation medical facilities are exempt from treatment costs.

” The clients are by no means responsible to treatment expenses. It is the referral hospitals that will declare the treatment expenses from the director general of the Health Ministry, with copies (of claims) resolved to BPJS Kesehatan (Healthcare and Social Security Company) and district and community health workplaces,” spokesperson for the Job Force for COVID-19 Action, Wiku Adisasmito, said in a press conference here on Thursday.

He attracted workplaces and companies to not fret about the treatment costs of workers evaluating favorable for COVID-19, stating the expenses will be borne entirely by the government, be they BPJS members, non-BPJS members, or expatriates.

The workplaces and companies need to be transparent in reporting any of their employees who evaluate positive for COVID-19 to regional health offices, he stated.

Offices and companies must trace those who have been available in close contact with COVID-19 clients by collaborating with the regional health and workforce offices, he included.

He likewise urged offices and companies to offer totally free swab tests to those who have come in close contact with COVID-19 clients.

If they discover additional COVID-19 cases, they should collaborate with the local health workplace and allow staff members checking negative for the infection to work from house, he stated. (INE)

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