TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology said it would collaborate with the Ministry of Health to resolve the shortage issue in Indonesia, a plan that came after the ministry announced its plan to limit the establishment of new medical faculties in the country.
Togar Mangihut Simatupang, the acting secretary-general of the ministry, said the government will focus the distribution of doctors across Indonesia to the outermost, frontier, and disadvantaged (3T) regions.
“Regions facing doctor shortages will be supplemented with doctors from other parts of the country,” he said in a brief message on Tuesday, January 28, 2025.
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