REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WANGIWANGI -- About 177.84 million people, including the poor and underprivileged, in Indonesia have been covered by the 'Jamkes' health social insurance scheme, a cabinet minister said.
Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi in her written address read out on Sunday by Hugua, the Wakatobi District head, Southeast Sulawesi, said that 2,186 hospitals had been providing Jamkes services across the country.
In her address to the commemoration of the 68th National Heroes Day, the minister said that besides the hospitals, a total of 9,599 public health care centers (Puskesmas) had also been made available.
There are also some 23,225 Sub-Puskesmas units, 54,704 village health posts and 276,688 integrated health service posts (Posyandu).
"We continue to increase health services from time to time to eliminate health service disparities among regions, among groups and social economic groups," she said.
The minister said that the government had made a number of achievements in the health service sector such as the eradication of polio, malaria, leprosy, the handling of HIV/AIDS patients, increasing nutritional intake and accelerating the efforts to achieve the millennium development goals.
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