REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, Semarang - Indonesia's health costs over the period 2000 to 2010 has increased significantly. Even the amount of health care costs is touted far greater than the rate of inflation in the same period.
Deputy Health Minister, Ali Ghufron Mukti, said, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), expenditures on health in Indonesia per capita per year in 2001 reached 16.57 billion U.S. dollars. This number increased to 30.15 billion U.S. dollars, up from 82 percent in 2005.
In 2006, health care costs is back 'bubble' up to 39.66 U.S. dollars. Even this figure continues to increase to 76.89 million U.S. dollars in 2010, up by 93.9 percent compared to 2006.
"That is, as long as a decade (period 2000-2010), the cost of health care in this country has increased by 364 percent," said Ali Ghufron, in the Workshop 'Role in Revitalizing the state to Strengthen Primary Physician NHS' in Patra Semarang Convention hotels (PSCH), Monday (21/1) night.
To cope with the high cost of health care, government and State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) are being initiated a breakthrough in the National Health System (NHS) more 'pro-people' revitalizing primary physician as the spearhead of the SKN. One of the SOEs to be towed is PT Pertamina (Persero).
According to Ali Ghufron, the government initiated the NHS that combines the efforts of Indonesia in a tramp, held in a synergistic and involve all levels of government, private and public. This system, he said, still referring to the Long Term Development Plan in Health (RPJPK) year from 2005 to 2025. "So that remains linear with programs to improve the quality of health services of the government," he said. N