Hospital medical teams as well as from Puskesmas – Public Health Center – should not cynical and give half-hearted treatment for those who are under Jaringan Kesehatan Bali Mandara (JKBM) – although it has “free” element in it hoped the medical team could give their professional service for them. “Medical team service at the hospitals and puskesmas is get paid by the government,” Bali Governor, Made Mangku Pastika confessed when attending public meeting at Balai Budaya Gianyar that was attended by hundreds of Gianyar people on Saturday (March 6).

Attended also in that public meeting was the Vice Governor, AA Puspayoga, Gianyar Regent and his Vice Governor as well as with the officials from provincial and Gianyar government. Around 500 hundred people from various background in Gianyar were attended the meeting. 46 of them willingly to deliver their aspiration but due to the limitation of time, merely ten of them could do so. The remaining wrote it in term of letter to the governor.

From the meeting and discussion, what the most hot topic to be discussed was JKBM program. Factually, this program ran from January 1st 2010 yet this program needs further completion hence it could run smoothly. According to the plan, the JKBM program will officially launched on next April.

JKBM service had been arranged, still it need no cynical implementation such as patient referral obligation. This kind of referral can be arranged afterward especially for emergency patients. Governor here explained that the enactment of referral obligation is to avoid hospitalized patients over loaded at the hospitals since they have numbers of index. “Just because you have a cold doesn’t mean ‘hospital.’ in fact it only needs Public Health Center service,” he explained.

Besides, if we observed thoroughly toward the medical team service, the free impression in this JKBM program hoped would not reduce either hospitals or public health centers services toward the people. It is since they have been paid by the government for theirs medical service.

In addition toward the service in this Bali government health program, the governor also instructed to the related parties not to pay those lazy and dilapidated medical teams. Meanwhile, this JKBM program had cost nine billion rupiah fund for the treatment 184.304 people since its implementation in March.

News by Bali Post