Sri Mulyani: Health Budget Up 67.8% per October
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Ririe Ranggasari
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Laila Afifa
Jumat, 26 November 2021 13:29 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said that the health budget absorption reached Rp202 trillion as of October 2021. The figure reflects a 67.8-percent (yoy) growth, affected by ministries/institutions' spending increase of 95.5 percent (yoy).
"We can imagine how every surge in Covid-19 [cases] is very costly. Currently, the cost is Rp202 trillion, while last year it was Rp120.3 trillion. The increase is truly extraordinary," Sri Mulyani said in a press conference for Our State Budget, Thursday, November 25.
The budget, she said, was spent on the treatment claims of 7,139,000 patients, procuring 121.4 million doses of vaccines, incentives for health workers, as well as other health treatments.
The budget for the National Economic Recovery (PEN) Program in 2021 was raised to Rp744.77 trillion, mainly to provide additional support for health care and social protection amid the case surge because of the Delta variant.
As of November 19, the PEN program's spending has reached Rp495.77 trillion or 66.6 percent of the ceiling. Significant progress in PEN was recorded in the social protection and business incentives clusters.
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