Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin is prioritizing early detection and screening to curb high mortality rates caused by unmanaged heart disease.The initiative comes as official data ...
Deputy Minister of Health Benjamin Paulus Octavianus emphasized strengthening health quarantine as a preventive step against the entry of the Nipah virus into Indonesia, following cases in India ...
A measles outbreak in Sumenep, East Java, has killed 17 children and is suspected to have infected nearly 2,000 others over the past eight months.Due to this surge in cases, local health authorities ...
The Coordinating Ministry for Infrastructure and Regional Development is awaiting directions from the Indonesian Health Ministry on COVID-19 measures, such as restrictions, amid a rise in infections ...
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has not asked hospitals and health centers to make special preparations for handling human metapneumovirus (hMPV) cases, but urged that case reports be submitted ...
President Prabowo Subianto has informed that Indonesia is ready to donate USD30 million to support the activities and humanitarian tasks of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). ...
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said that his ministry will distribute portable X-rays to areas with high incidence of tuberculosis in a bid to promote screening of children for the ...
The government's total health expenditure reached Rp606.3 trillion (around US$37.04 billion) in 2023, with an increase in spending recorded from year to year, according to a special staff to ...
The Health Ministry has said that five factors could lead to higher tuberculosis (TB) incidence in Indonesia, with smoking being the highest contributor to TB cases, thus they need to be addressed. ...
Secretary General of the Ministry of Health Kunta Wibawa Dasa Nugraha highlighted the need to improve the awareness of Indonesians regarding the benefits and importance of immunization. "Many ...