The Health Ministry has scrapped a complex set of rules prescribing which vaccine brands were to be used at which stages of the COVID-19 vaccination regimen, opting instead to allow people to get any generally approved vaccine for their primary and booster doses, as policymakers shift toward treating the coronavirus as an endemic disease.
The Health Ministry has reported that 96.2 percent of the total Rp3.55 trillion in government aid in 2022 was disbursed for the procurement of medical devices .
The Health Ministry has warned against the heightened danger of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and syphilis, as the two sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have seen an uptick in cases in recent years, while the number of pregnant women getting medical attention against these diseases remains dangerously low.
The rejection of the Health Bill hampers efforts to improve legal protection for healthcare workers, said Mohammad Syahril, spokesperson for the Health .