REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- A total of 15 teams of the medical specialists are ready to check the health condition of the presidential and vice presidential candidates who will compete in the upcoming July 9 presidential election, a spokesman said.
Fourteen teams of the medical specialists were provided by the Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) and another team was prepared by the Gatot Subroto hospital, according to IDI general chairman dr. Zaenal Abdidin, MH.Kes here on Sunday.
"All the medical team members are ready to check the health condition of the presidential and vice presidential candidates beginning Monday (May 19)," he stated.
At least 46 medical specialists have been prepared from May 19 through May 23 for the health checking of the president and vice president hopefuls, Zaenal said, adding that Gatot Subroto hospital provided a dentists and psychologists.
According to him, fourteen teams of the medical specialists are internists, experts in cardiac and blood vessel field, experts in lung, surgery, urological surgery, orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and neurology, including ophthalmologists.
Zaenal further said that the medical practitioners who will join the medical specialist's team should not constitute the personal physicians of the presidential and vice presidential candidates.
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