August 8, 2022 – According to data from the Indonesian Hospital Association (PERSI) in 2021, a total of 44 internationally accredited hospitals have the ability to help Indonesia promote the health and wellness tourism industry.
The accreditations, among others, were given out by the Joint Commission International (JCI), Accreditation Council of Health Care Standard, and Hospital Accreditation Commission (KARS).
Meanwhile, by implementing health changes to raise the standard of services provided to visitors, the Ministry of Health helps to boost health and wellness travel in Indonesia. One of them is by providing several community health centres, conventional health centres, and healthcare facilities with qualified human resources who are prepared to actualize health tourism.
While addressing the 2022 International Wellness Tourism Conference & Festival (IWTCF), Deputy Minister of Health, Dante Saksono Harbuwono stated that the change is focused on creating a health system that can offer the greatest services to the population. Thus, it can compete with health services in other nations.
Additionally, new innovations are always being created, such as healing trip packages that combine natural, artificial, shopping, and culinary tourism.
The Ministry of Health has also created telemedicine, online health services, robotics in medical treatment, and digital health information system services. In order to maximize health resources, it also aims to offer high-quality services at reasonable prices.
He stated that promote health tourism not only benefits the country’s foreign exchange but also enhances the quality of the healthcare industry, boosts the number of qualified medical personnel, and aids in the growth of tourist locations.
As a result, his team also coordinates the equitable distribution of healthcare professionals and boosts their competence by offering sustainable training; helps hospitals and other high-need healthcare facilities prepare for institutional health tourism; and makes it easier to designate hospitals as providers of medical tourism services.
Suitable information and communication systems are used in conjunction with the principles of good clinical and hospital governance to implement the strategies.
