The Health Ministry develops Indonesian Robotic Surgery Center at Hasan Sadikin Hospital (RSHS), Bandung, West Java, and Dr Sardjito Public Hospital, Yogyakarta, to facilitate the development of remote surgery service.
“Robotic project is a multi-year project aims to improve health service access and quality for unreachable regions in Indonesia,” the Ministry’s Pharmacy and Health Equipment Industry Resiliency Special Staff Laksono Trisnantoro noted.
“The strategy involves utilizing Robotic Telesurgery as part of the telemedicine program,” he said in a written statement on Sunday morning.
The facility came from the business matching initiation at Health Business Forum which created the 2021-2024 Robotic Telesurgery multi-year and multi-stakeholders project design.
“After knowledge and technological transfer access was given, domestic industry is capable of producing the equipments and their spare parts domestically with adequate Domestic Component Level (TKDN),” he remarked.
The project not only has economic value, it also has educational value.
“Robotic surgery training curriculum will be certified and accredited so that in the future, robotic surgery expertise will be recommended to be included in surgeon specialist education curriculum in Indonesia,” Trisnantoro said.
The program supports the transformation of health technology-based secondary services through remote surgery or operation service.
In the future, the technology can send referral patients to type A hospital or National Referral National with remote surgery service.
Robotic Surgery Expert Reno Rudiman noted that Hasan Sadikin Hospital has been running the telesurgery robotic program since 2020.
As an example, Sina Robotic, a surgery robot within the hospital, conducts surgery using modular instrument from each tower, allowing for a more flexible movement.
“The instrument that Sina utilizes has a size of 5 mm. As a result, injury caused by the operation can be more minimally invasive,” he informed.
In terms of financing scheme, the program is deemed to be more economic for financing recommendation in the National Health Insurance (JKN) program.
The telesurgery robotic project is a concrete example from health system transformation initiated by the ministry which comprises four pillars: Referral Service Transformation, Health Financing, Health Equipment Industry Resilient, and Health Human Resources.
Policy recommendation to implement the telesurgery robotic program in Indonesia requires major commitment from all stakeholders, primarily the ministry, hospitals,universities, and health equipment State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) industry, Rudiman remarked.
Source: Antara News