Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Ministry of Health said that the main goal of bringing in foreign doctors to Indonesia is to enable the transfer of knowledge to their local counterparts, in addition to addressing the shortage of medical professionals.
The ministry’s Director General for Health Services, Azhar Jaya, made the remarks on Tuesday in response to a question about mapping foreign doctors in Indonesia.
He said that such knowledge transfer is taking place in some hospitals for procedures such as heart or lung transplants, as Indonesia has never performed such procedures before.
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