BPJS Kesehatan collaborates with TNI to reach 3T areas using hospital ships

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Social Security Organising Agency (BPJS) for Health is collaborating with the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) to reach underdeveloped, frontier, and outermost (3T) regions using hospital ships. “Our National Health Insurance (JKN) programme in the 3T areas is included in the best quick-win programmes. We have already met with the Minister of Defence, and in the future, we will also meet with the TNI Commander and the Chief of the Navy Staff. In fact, three hospital ships are already cooperating with us,” said BPJS Kesehatan Director General Prihati Pujowaskito in Jakarta on Tuesday. The man familiarly known as Pujo explained that one of the floating healthcare facilities cooperating with BPJS Kesehatan is the Ksatria Airlangga Ship Hospital. “We will continue to forge cooperation with others, of course after obtaining cooperation and guidance from the TNI Commander and the Army Chief of Staff (Kasad),” he stated. “So that services that have not yet been felt in underdeveloped areas can be provided through hospital ships, we will certainly plan this in the next three months,” he added. The JKN programme in the 3T areas is also a priority, so cooperation with the Ministry of Villages and Underdeveloped Regions Development (Kemendes PDT) continues to be optimised to ensure all village communities receive equitable healthcare services. “BPJS Kesehatan now has 283 million participants. Of that number, 81.5 percent or around 266 million more are active. That means the coverage of protection is only that much,” said Pujo. Currently, BPJS Kesehatan has transacted with more than 23,000 clinics in 3,170 hospitals throughout Indonesia, providing healthcare services funding to JKN participants amounting to Rp2 million in transactions every day. “The funds (for JKN) are Rp500 billion per day. So, this is what BPJS Kesehatan does in implementing the JKN programme,” he explained.