Akmal Taher, the Health Ministry'€™s director regular for well being development, stated on Monday that the hotline number, 119, would permit the public to achieve news concerning the availability of hospital rooms as properly as make emergency requests for an ambulance.
'€œIn the future, we can not see sufferers being rejected with the aid of means of hospitals whilst they're in dire want of well being assistance. They can merely dial the quantity to get news concerning the nearest handy hospitals,'€ Akmal advised reporters on Monday.
The 119 emergency hotline was first released in Jakarta in cooperation with PT Telkom Indonesia in March this year.
Now, the carrier is being expanded nationally after the ministry signed a memorandum of figuring out (MoU) with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia and nine different telecommunications providers, specifically PT Telekomunikasi Selular; PT Indosat; PT XL Axiata; PT Smartfren Telecom; PT Bakrie Telecom; PT Axis Telekom Indonesia; PT Sampoerna Telekomunikasi Indonesia; PT Smart Telecom and PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia.
However, Chairul Rajab Nasution, the ministry'€™s well being referral gadget director, stated the carrier would only be capable for complete implementation throughout all provinces with the aid of means of 2014.
He stated that not all native well being businesses within the country'€™s 33 provinces have been outfitted with name centers.
'€œHealth businesses that already have name facilities are determined in Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Manado,'€ Chairul said.
The new gadget nonetheless had its drawbacks, he added.
'€œCallers nonetheless have to dial their part code whilst dialing the hotline number. In the close to future, however, they'll not require an part code whilst dialing 119,'€ he said.
Muhammad Awaluddin, Telkom'€™s employer and wholesale director, stated it should take a few time for telecommunication carrier suppliers to centralize the hotline quantity and take away the part code.
'€œWe wish that within the future, the gadget won't only supply a name middle but in addition a touch center, the place the companies supplied will contain call-based well being news and likewise text-based companies adding a carrier utilizing social media,'€ Muhammad said.
Following the agreement, Akmal stated that the ministry would guarantee that well being businesses and hospitals can be totally keen so as to help the carrier hotline.
He stated that extra than 90 hospitals, adding city-run and personal hospitals in Jakarta, have been cooperating with the city'€™s well being businesses and might deal with round 2,000 calls per day.
'€œIf the carrier has been operating properly on every day basis, the hotline might supply well being consultation for the sufferers with illness,'€ Akmal said.
Akmal stated that the hotline can be unfastened of rate for Telkom customers.
'€œWe wish that the different telecommunications operators will quickly comply with the step of Telkom, and provides the carrier for free,'€ Akmal said.
The government is anticipated to enforce the universal well being which will 96.7 million of us as quickly as the Social Security Providers (BPJS) takes impact in 2014.