RI lacks pediatric radiologists

RI lacks pediatric radiologists

JAKARTA: The small number of pediatric radiologists in the country has prevented children from obtaining the best medical assistance, a radiologist said on Tuesday.

Daniel Makes, a radiologist at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, said that currently there were 20 pediatric radiologists that had to serve 85.2 million children across the country.

"It means one pediatric radiologist should handle four million children," he said at the media briefing on the eleventh congress of ASEAN Association of Radiologists (AAR).

The congress will be held in Sanur, Bali, from Sept. 4 to Sept. 7. --JP