160 Thousand Indonesian Children Infected with HIV / AIDS

National AIDS Commission (KPAN) recorded about 160 thousand children in Indonesia are under 15 years of age infected with HIV / AIDS. Most of these children have HIV / AIDS from parents.

KPAN Secretary Nafsiah Mboi said KPAN with several pediatricians in Indonesia now is trying to do therapy on children with HIV / AIDS including the provision of drug seeking HIV / AIDS or antiretroviral (ARV) special children, although antiretroviral drugs in children is still imported from India.

According Nafsiah, the government is also now being sought to provide prevention services HIV / AIDS transmission from mother to child. "Starting this 2009 more and more hospitals and doctors can take steps to prevent from parents to the baby," he said.

He acknowledged the stigma and discrimination also still occur in health institutions, although patients with HIV / AIDS are children. According to him, the future need for an HIV / AIDS is more focused on children and adolescents.

Inadequate Hospital Services To The Poor

Prism of the cases experienced by the complaining Prita Mulyasari hospital service level OMNI International, we consider the following a report released by the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW). Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) said, some hospitals, both government and private sector are still not being friendly to people and the poor patients.

ICW concluded that based on ICW survey conducted in November 2009, which took a sample of 738 poor patients. Samples taken from the patients who holds the Community Health Insurance card (Jamkesmas), Family Poverty (Gakin), and Letter Description Not Able (SKTM). The patient was treated in 23 hospitals scattered and located in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi.

The patients complained of bad service is a nurse, doctor visits at least in-patients, and duration of the services performed by health personnel (pharmacists and laboratory personnel). patients also complained about the poor quality of toilets, beds, food and the complexity of patient administration and management of high drug prices.

The survey shows, among others as much as 65.4 percent of female patients who undergo inpatient nurses complained of being less friendly and sympathetic to them.patients also complained about the management of complex valued administration (28.4 percent) and has a long queue (46.9 percent). On average, the time management of the administration for one patient could spend as much time as 1 hour 45 minutes.

Hospitals should improve the quality of services to poor patients by increasing the doctor's visit, friendly nurses, health service speed, and increasing the quality of infrastructure facilities and hospitals. In addition, hospitals also must communicate information about patient rights standards related to hospital services, and complaints mechanisms open / complaints and follow up on these complaints in a transparent and accountable according to article 36 and 37 of Law No. 25/2009 on Public Service.

Only 62 pct of RI hospitals accredited

Until December 2009, 831 or 62 percent of total hospitals in Indonesia have been accredited, a health ministry official said here on Monday.

The director of mental health service development, Dr Aminulla said the total number of public and private hospitals in the country was 1,371, adding that 22 percent of private hospitals in the country have also been accredited.

He said the accreditation was important with regard to assuring provision of standard services.

He said hospital services had to be improved continuously to meet increasing public demand.

In view of that implementation of service standards in hospitals had to be carried out well and for that hospitals needed accreditation.

He said the accreditation was a government`s confirmation that the recipients had given the standards of service.

On Law Number 44 of 2009 on hospitals, Aminulla said it had clearly sided with the people, as for example, it had assured a free charge ambulance service for the poor.
He said he hoped the hospitals could continue improving their service by among others not prioritizing advance payment from patients.

He said the government was responsible in assuring easy access for quality health service to the people.

He said the law which still requires government regulations for its implementation was continuously familiarized to accomodate people`s interest.

He said the government would strive to reduce tax for hospitals but the directors general of medical service and taxation still needed to sit to build common perception with regard to it.(*)




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