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January 13, 2025 | 04:48 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro revealed the plan to restrict the opening of medical faculties in Indonesian universities.
“We will temporarily limit the opening of medical faculties,” he told the media crew on Monday, January 13, 2025.
The minister acknowledges the shortage of doctors in the country, but asserts that opening new medical faculties is not the appropriate solution.
“What we need is more doctors, not medical faculties,” he said.
On a different occasion, Deputy Minister of Health Dante Saksono Harbuwono said Indonesia still lacks 120,000 general practitioners, based on the ideal ratio expected by the World Health Organization (WHO) of 1 doctor every 1,000 residents. Indonesia currently employs around 150,000 general practitioners.
“Meanwhile, at present, medical faculties in Indonesia generally result in about 12,000 people,” said Dante on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, as quoted from Antara.
One of the alternatives proposed by Minister Satryo to tackle the shortage is increasing the quota for student admissions from existing medical faculties.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health says Indonesia is currently short of 1,500 cardiologists. Ministry data shows that approximately 296,000 people in Indonesia die from cardiovascular diseases every year.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said the high mortality rate of cardiovascular diseases in Indonesia is attributed to the lack of cardiologists in the country with competence in interventional cardiology.
Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that aims to help people suffering from heart disease with treatment without the need for major surgery.
“We must speed up the availability of such services to save hundreds of thousands of lives,” he said during the release ceremony of overseas fellowship candidates to China and Japan on Monday, January 6, 2025.
M. Rizki Yusrial contributed to the writing of this article.
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