In the Covid-19 pandemic, disabled Indonesians had an extra hurdle to overcome when seeking information on health. The country’s information channels rarely took their special needs into account.
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Indonesia in 2020, the medically recommended and socially acceptable thing to do was to stay at home and flatten the curve of infection rates. But not everyone had that privilege.
Strengthening early detection of a disease is a crucial transformation in Indonesia’s health system, according to the Health Ministry’s Health Service Director General Abdul Kadir.
Hypertension, a condition in which one’s blood pressure reading consistently exceeds 140/90 mm Hg, remains a worrying health problem in Indonesia.
Gubernur Jatim, Khofifah I. Parawansa didampingi Konjen di Surabaya, Fionna Hoggart tengah menyiapkan pencegahan virus penyakit mulut dan kuku (PMK) pada ternak dengan bantuan obat-obatan dari pemerintah Australia.
Indonesia recently announced that it so far had detected 15 cases of acute hepatitis.
Health ministry says symptoms match those of acute liver disease of ‘unknown origin’ found in almost 170 children worldwide.
The Indonesian Health Ministry announced that over 400 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered across Indonesian regions.
An NGO study has found that the Java Island’s Ciliwung is badly contaminated with micro-plastics, threatening human health and aquatic life.
When Wawan was young, his family was perplexed by his behavior. He didn’t respond to his name or play with toys, only a metal spoon.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi highlighted the shortage of workers in the health sector, including the fact that 5.65 percent or 586 out of Indonesia’s 10,373 community health centers did not have a doctor.
Good news for Indonesian women and girls: Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin recently announced that the government would incorporate the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine into the school-based national immunisation program.
President Jokowi urged all countries to reinforce a global health architecture to ensure the global community’s resilience toward any future pandemic.
An episode of a podcast Building BRIDGES about the exchanges that have taken place between their schools and about how student wellbeing became a feature of their partnership.
Almost all residents of Indonesia’s most populous island of Java have antibodies against COVID-19, owing to a combination of prior infection and vaccination against the virus.
Indonesia’s health systems work well at local level but cannot provide adequate nationwide pandemic warnings. For those, a new system is needed.
