Thursday, January 12, 2012

In 2012, Fee Increases Jampersal Rp 600 Thousand



Jakarta, In early 2011, the Ministry of Health launched the Labor Insurance program (Jampersal) to help mothers give birth in health facilities free of charge, with a unit cost of each capital of Rp 430 thousand. In 2012, the unit cost per package Jampersal will rise to $ 600 thousand.
Towards Universal Coverage, one of the programs in the year 2011 the Ministry of Health is the Labor Insurance program (Jampersal). With the program, pregnant women can do the labor for free at government health facilities and also the private sector who have signed a cooperation, which is assisted by health workers with only with ID card only. This is expected to help reduce maternal and infant mortality.
Labor Warranty covers prenatal care during pregnancy were examined 4 times, labor costs either normal or with complications, as well as during childbirth services are guaranteed only 3 times.
For normal deliveries, Jampersal provide a cost of Rp 430,000 per unit cost or pregnant women respectively. But because Jampersal entered as a priority budget of the Ministry of Health, for the year 2012 the cost rose to Rp 600,000 per unit cost.
"In the year 2011, money is money provided to 2.85 million deliveries. It's available funds by its unit cost of prenatal care, childbirth, childbirth and family planning services was USD 430,000. I know there are many complaints that it's less, so 2012 will be increased. Year 2012 will be Rp 600,000 per package, "said Minister of Health, Dr. Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, MPH, Dr.PH, in a press conference and the 2011 Performance Evaluation of Priority Program 2012 Ministry of Health in Building Kemenkes, Brass, Jakarta , Wednesday (04/01/2012).
She believed that the cost of Rp 600,000 Jampersal to handle cases of normal deliveries. As for the case of delivery by Caesarean section can still be borne Jampersal but with other higher costs.
For Jampersal expansion, in addition to the cost per package is up, Minister of Health also confirmed that mothers giving birth who received help Jampersal be urged to follow the family planning program, especially for mothers who already had many children, although the guarantee is not limited only to childbirth The first and second child.
"Mothers who are pregnant at the top-three children to the risk is even higher. So if we confine Jampersal only for the first and second child, we lower the target MMR (maternal mortality) justu not achieved. So we do not limit, but we ask so to join family planning and for children over 5 will be a permanent family planning, "said Minister.

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