Jakarta – Indonesia’s Ministry of Health is preparing more than two thousand scholarships for the medical professional, sub-specialist, and main service family doctor education program this year.
” This scholarship is meant to cover the lack of medical specialists in Indonesia,” Director for Health Worker Provision at the ministry Oos Fatimah informed here on Tuesday.
Indonesia is still trying to attain the target medical expert ratio of 0.28 per 1,000 population.
Currently, 46,200 medical specialists are serving 277 million Indonesians. This implies that Indonesia still needs around 31,481 medical specialists.
Based upon the medical specialist spread in Indonesia’s map, they are still concentrated in Jakarta, Bali, and Yogyakarta. Meanwhile, the provinces that need medical specialists make up East Nusa Tenggara, Papua, Maluku, North Maluku, and West Papua.
The ministry reported that just five provinces have cardiologists. Internal medicine professionals are spread out across 6 provinces, while ob-gyn specialists are offered in 11 provinces.
Moreover, surgeons are spread in 6 provinces, anesthesiologists in four provinces, scientific pathologists in seven provinces, and radiology doctors in one province. There are no anatomical pathology experts in Indonesia.
In addition, thoracic, cardiac, and vascular (BTKV) surgeons are just in one province, lung experts in one province, urology professionals in 3 provinces, neurologists in seven provinces, neurosurgeons in 3 provinces, and orthopedic professionals and traumatology in three provinces.
” Usually, there are around 30 provinces in Indonesia that do not have medical specialists. This means that we are handling a problem, not just from amount perspective, however likewise from circulation perspective,” she notified.
Moreover, 266 out of 681 district/city local medical facilities in Indonesia reportedly do not have seven types of fundamental medical experts: pediatrician, ob-gyn, cosmetic surgeon, internal medicine, anesthetist, radiologist, and scientific pathologist.
Fatimah added that the doctor scholarship program started in 2021 with a quota of 600 for medical specialists. In 2022, the figure increased to 1,676 scholarships and in 2023, it became 2,170 scholarships from the ministry and Education Fund Management Organization (LPDP).
The ministry has actually already implemented the first batch of medical sub-specialists scholarship program with 583 individuals. For the second batch, the variety of sub-specialist scholarships is 417.
Registrations for the medical expert, sub-specialist, and main service family physician scholarship can be finished through the site http://sibk.kemkes.go.id/ The registrations will be open from June 23 till July 12,2023
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