Jakarta, The Indonesia Post – Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin assessed that state auditors were very helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, where the crisis was not an ordinary crisis because it was a combination of health and economic problems.
“This is a fact that I saw from the auditors, the auditors worked with us in 2020, 2021, and 2022. We got very clear support from them,” said Budi in Sharing Session 1 of the Supreme Audit Institutions G20 (SAI20) Summit in Nusa Dua. , Badung, Bali, Monday.
The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) and the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) are continuously working together to manage four risk areas in COVID-19 spending, namely hospital payments, control systems, policies, and internal management.
In the area of hospital payment risk, he said the Ministry of Health and the BPK worked together to ensure payments were in accordance with actual COVID-19 service claims and were paid on time. Then on the control system, ensuring that the COVID-19 patient claim payment control system is sufficient, transparent, and accountable.
Furthermore, the cooperation between the Ministry of Health and the BPK in the policy risk area is to ensure that claims for payment for COVID-19 patient services are in accordance with existing policies. While in the internal management area, namely by ensuring a strong internal control system for the procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Budi said when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Ministry of Health had a very clear strategy based on the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), so that the pandemic budget was divided according to each handling.
“We have informed BPK since then, how much money, and what kind of program or health protocol strategy as well as detection strategies such as treatment strategies and vaccination strategies,” he said.
The Ministry of Health itself, he said, puts a lot of emphasis on the defensive side, namely the health detection mechanism for healthy people.
Thus, the pandemic has so far succeeded in enhancing the global health architecture to build a healthier and safer world, not only for the current generation, but also for generations to come. (ojn/bbs)
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