Indonesian hospitals lack concern for the poor
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 02/08/2010 4:31 PM | National
Indonesian hospitals in general do not support the poorer sectors of society, as people still have difficulties in accessing adequate health services even though they have cards classifying them to be from low-income families.
The finding was announced during a meeting between the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) and the Health Ministry in Jakarta on Monday.
For this reason, the ICW urged the ministry to push for the deliberation of a bill on a national social security agency (BPJS) to implement a nationwide welfare system in line with the 2004 law on the national social security system (SJSN).
The ministry was urged to speed up the establishment of the Hospital Monitoring Agency to help improve hospital quality in providing health services and erase discrimination in their services to poorer patients.
"The establishment of the Hospital Monitoring Agency is needed to ensure patients' rights and hospitals' fulfillment of their obligations as well as to mediate and monitor hospitals' ethics," said Febri Hendri, an ICW senior researcher for public service monitoring, as quoted by kompas.com.
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