DPR Criticizes Plan to Reduce Healthcare Workers' Incentives

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Ricky Mohammad Nugraha

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Petir Garda Bhwana

Kamis, 4 Februari 2021 08:49 WIB

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a hearing with the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission IX members on Wednesday said that he will try to maintain the incentives for healthcare workers in the front line of the Covid-19 crisis despite seeing a budget cut from the Finance Ministry.

Together with the Finance Ministry, he claims to be exploring the possibility of relocating budgets outside of the Health Ministry to provide the healthcare workers with incentives.

“There will be another discussion with the Finance Minister (Sri Mulyani). The aspiration was captured by the Finance Ministry and will be discussed,” said Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Wednesday, February 4.

Disincentivizing healthcare workers handling the pandemic has become the focus of House legislators and Commission IX deputy speaker Nihayatul Wafiroh who openly said such a move from the Finance Ministry is regrettable.

“We are lacking healthcare workers. It will take a long time to obtain just one of them but why are their incentives being cut,” said Wafiroh and a member of the PKB party.

Commission IX member Anshory Siregar further defended the livelihood of the healthcare workers and asserted that these frontline workers have sacrificed their time and lives to treat people infected by the Covid-19 virus.

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