Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – PT Pertamina International Shipping (PIS) as a company operating in the maritime sector, realizes that one of the challenges in providing health facilities in Indonesia as the largest maritime country in the world is accessibility.
PIS Main Director Yoki Firnandi said that for coastal communities and other island areas, the presence of a floating hospital is very much needed. His party has also collaborated with the Caring Doctors Foundation (doctorSHARE) to provide assistance with floating hospital medical services in West Papua.
“This synergy is a concrete manifestation of PIS’s commitment to improve the welfare of coastal communities and is a series of activities of the PIS “BerSEAnergi untuk Laut” program, as a corporate social and environmental responsibility program with the aim of improving the welfare of coastal communities and supporting marine sustainability,” explained Yoki in an official statement, quoted Monday (20/11/2023).
PIS’s own support takes the form of operational services at doctorSHARE’s Nusa Waluya II Floating Hospital (RSA) in Sorong, West Papua. This service is equivalent to a type C land hospital, including general medical, specialist clinics, obstetrics, pharmacy, and other support such as medical supplies, ambulances and laboratories.
DoctorSHARE Managing Director Tutuk Utomo Nuradhy explained that this assistance is really needed by the people in the Sorong area, especially in the Seget District and surrounding areas, because access to the nearest regional hospital is difficult and expensive.
“RSA Nusa Waluya II is planned to serve for 45 days in Papua with a target of up to 5000-7000 patients, including for minor and major operations,” explained Tutuk.
Therefore, PIS and doctorSHARE open opportunities for volunteer medical personnel to help provide health services at RSA Nusa Waluya II during this service period. Volunteer registration opens from Monday (20/11).
Meanwhile, the Minister of Law and Human Rights, Yasonna Laoly, on the Advisory Board of doctorSHARE, appreciated the assistance distributed by PIS to RSA Nusa Waluya II, which will serve health facilities in West Papua next December.
“A helping hand from caring donors can provide health accessibility assistance, especially for our communities in remote areas and remote islands. Currently, doctorSHARE has provided medical services to more than 350 thousand people, and of course this will continue to grow,” explained Yasona.
Meanwhile, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin added that what doctorSHARE is doing is extraordinary, medical personnel and all supporting parties are working wholeheartedly to help the government provide health services, starting from medical operations, maternal and child health interventions, as well as hospitals. small in areas where access is difficult.
“Then I listened to what docterSHARE needed, firstly the need for medical equipment and secondly the operational needs including ship fuel. Thank you to those who have helped,” said Budi.
For your information, doctorSHARE is a non-profit foundation that focuses on media services. This foundation was founded by dr. Lie Agustinus Dharmawan in 2008 who initiated the presence of the first floating hospital in Indonesia.
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