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