Meeting at the House of Representatives Commission I, the Minister of Defense trusted the TNI Hospital lack of specialist doctors

Jakarta – Minister of Defense (Minister of Defense) Shafrie Shamsoeddin said that a total of 29 TNI hospitals in Indonesia were not accredited due to the many prerequisites that were not met. One, namely the lack of specialist doctors at TNI Hospital. “As far as our hospital is concerned, we have 145 TNI hospitals from all our national regions. But there are still 29 hospitals that are not accredited,” Shafrie said in a work meeting with the House of Representatives I, Wednesday (4/30/2025) in the Senayan Parliament, Central Jakarta ,. He said the hospitals were not accredited due to the human resource factors (HR). In addition, it is also related to the needs of the basic service capabilities needed for health professionals. Browsing to continue with content “such as specialists, surgery specialists, specialists in internal medicine, OBGYN specialists and child specialists, it is still missing. Therefore, the defense university driven by the former defense minister at the time, Mr. Prabowo Subianto the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Defense,” he explained. “Alhamdulillah, we already have every graduation that our 75 alumni of the Faculty of Medicine is issuing, that is to pursue the shortcomings we face,” he continued. Shafrie said his party also worked with the Ministry of Health related to specialist doctors. Because, he said, specialist doctors need recommendations for the Ministry of Health. “If it does not get a recommendation from the Ministry of Health, it will also be difficult, the subjective problem that specialization is the affairs of the university, and so on, I do not really understand what is implied,” he said. “But it could be a consideration for the fathers and mothers to encourage the relevant ministries or related bodies to also have specialist doctors to keep in hospital,” he continued. Shafrie also said that his party received permission from the Ministry of Health at this time, so that foreign specialist doctors in Indonesia could practice. Especially, he said, in the institutional hospital. “Alhamdulillah, the Ministry of Health, has given the green light that foreign doctors can practice in institutional hospitals, not separately,” he said. In addition, Shafrie explained that his party also died with friendly countries about medicine. Shafrie said his party revived the pharmaceutical laboratory to produce their own medicine. “We know that the price of medicine in Indonesia is very high; we also revived the pharmaceutical laboratory in the generation to become a pharmaceutical factory of national defense medicine, so that our drug production is expected to be done later,” he explained. “We are working with the Ministry of Health, we can also contribute the medicine we produce to the people in the town, with the village cooperatives that will be formed, we will provide these pharmacies with the medicine we make in this centralized drug factory,” he added. (AMW/EVA) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here