Health building inaugurated

Health building inaugurated

JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Health Sujudi inaugurated yesterday
the operation of Fatmawati Hospital's new health service facility
in its compound in South Jakarta.

At the inauguration ceremony, Sujudi said that he expected the
new six-story building, named Teratai, to help maintain Jakarta's
position as the best city in Indonesia for medical services for
both poor and rich people.

The new facility, built at a cost of Rp 2.2 billion
(US$830,000) on a 2,700-square-meter plot of land, provides
medical services ranging from gynecology and childbirth, to
neonatal intensive care.

Heyder Tadjoedin, the hospital director, said that another
six-story building is currently being constructed in the same
compound. This Rp 2.4 billion project is expected to be completed
by February next year, he said.

Deputy governor for economic and development affairs Tb.M.
Rais, who was also present at the inauguration ceremony, hoped
that the new building would be useful to city residents.

Governor Surjadi Soedirdja said earlier that Jakarta has
managed to reduce the infant mortality rate from 32 per 1,000
births in 1993 to 28 per 1,000 births this year.

He also said that the city is included in the list of top five
provinces successfully running the family planning program,
having reduced the population growth rate to 2.09 percent this
year from 2.41 percent in 1994. (07)