BPS to deliver health data

BPS to deliver health data

JAKARTA: The Ministry of Health signed on Monday an agreement
with the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) to help speed up the
delivery of regional health data.

The agreement was signed by Minister of Health Sujudi and BPS
chief Soedarti Surbakti.

Sujudi said the agreement was necessary because the delivery
of health data had deteriorated since the implementation of
regional autonomy in January 2001.

He hoped the cooperation between the two institutions would
allow people to receive the latest data on disease eradication,
the promotion of a healthy environment and lifestyle and other
health-related matters.

"We don't have any officials in the regions since autonomy, so
the delivery of data is not good.

"BPS can help us because it has representatives in the
provinces, regencies and mayoralties," he said. --JP