President Prabowo Subianto prioritizes preventative healthcare by allocating funds for nationwide health checks.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has allocated 4.7 trillion IDR (US$303.2 million) for the Free Health Check-up Programme , which will target 60 million Indonesians this year. This was conveyed by spokesperson for the Presidential Communications Office Dedek Prayudi in a statement issued in Bogor, West Java, on January 3.Promotive and preventive efforts are much more important than curative efforts, he said.
President Prabowo has emphasized the importance of disease prevention and free health check-ups to reduce deaths from cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases, he noted. According to 2023 Socio-Economic Registration (Regsosek) data, non-communicable diseases are the chief cause of mortality in Indonesia.The Free Health Check-up Program will be implemented in stages from this year
HEALTH INDONESIA PRESIDENT NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES PROGRAMME
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