The Indonesian Health Ministry has asked local governments to regulate the placement of health workers based on the staffing needs at healthcare facilities. “There are many health workers who are still unfit in the (staff) formation. We do not know what are the regional governments’ considerations,” director general of health workers at the ministry, Arianti Anaya, said at a press conference in Jakarta on Thursday. For example, a community health center (puskesmas) whose staff consists of nine members, eight of whom are nurses, when in fact, puskesmas also need midwives, nutritionists, environmental health officers, pharmacists, and health promotion officers. Out of around 80 thousand puskesmas in Indonesia, only 15 thousand to 20 thousand, or around 25 percent, have the right staff composition according to their needs, Anaya pointed out. In addition, there are still around 500 puskesmas that do not have doctors and about 50 percent of them do not have health workers. According to her, incomplete health worker staffing has also been observed at around 3,800 regional public hospitals or RSUDs. Therefore, Anaya asked the regional government and related agencies to fulfill the staffing requirements at health service facilities according to their needs. She said that the central government wants each puskesmas to have the required staff members, including general practitioners, dentists, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, nutritionists, environmental health officers, community health officers, health promotion officers, and medical laboratory technology experts (ATLM). RSUD staff must at least include seven basic medical specialists, namely internal medicine specialists, obstetricians, pediatricians, surgeons, radiologists, anesthesiologists, and clinical pathologists. Anaya also informed that currently, the number of non-state civil apparatus health workers has reached 484,052, including 457,517 health workers in the local government sphere and 23,917 health workers at ministries/agencies. In 2022, the number of applications for health workers’ posts reached 88,370, with local governments proposing the recruitment of 80,049 health workers and ministries/agencies proposing the recruitment of 8,321 health workers. Anaya said she hopes that in the future, local governments would fill staff positions at puskesmas and hospitals based on their needs. Source: Antara News

Recently, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province has released “What you do not know about Fuzhou – the Ecological Fuzhou”, a promotional video for Fuzhou City, through overseas social media accounts including “Paris Oriental Center”, “Discovery in Fujian”, and “Discovery in Fuzhou”, guiding global netizens to enjoy the ecological beauty of Fuzhou, featuring “lush greenery and flourishing flowers” and “clear waters flowing in rivers and lakes”.

 

Lucid waters and lush mountains have always been an important pillar for Fuzhou’s urban development. In this promotional video, people can see many splendid scenes. Specifically, thousands of birds are clustering and flying on Minjiang estuary wetland and among the swaying reeds, egrets are flying up and down on the inland rivers between cities, and citizens and travellers take rest under the lush banyan trees on both banks of the rivers. The mountain curves that rise and fall one after another form a continuous hilly ridge, and city line and its boundary line are formed by lush greenery. The roads set each other off among the trees, and the park extends to doorsteps of the dwelling.

 

In recent years, along with the grand blueprint of the “3820” Strategic Plan, Fuzhou, grounding its efforts on the ecological endowment, has been moving forward toward the city that is more livable, according to the Publicity Department of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee. As of the first half of this year, the proportion of excellent water quality in Fuzhou’s main watersheds has reached 94.4%, and the comprehensive air quality index has reached 2.62. At present, Fuzhou has more than 1,400 large and small parks, more than 5,000 mu of riverside park green space, and the per capita park green space area in the urban area has hit 14.82 square meters. With clear waters and lush mountains to mountains of gold and silver, this modern and international coastal city is being built into a “Model” of beautiful China.

 

 

 

Source: Antara News