HEALTH CARE

Hepatitis has remained a global health issue for years. Indonesia’s 2018 Health Baseline data reports that on average a million patients are diagnosed with hepatitis every year in our country, while WHO 2017 data shows hepatitis as the cause of 1.4 million deaths a year worldwide. Eurotransplant 2020 statistics even show that the donor need for human livers consistently remains in the fourth rank, and has for the past decade. 

Law Number 13 of 1998 concerning the Welfare of the Elderly defines an “elder” as “a person who has lived for 60 years or more.” The effort to secure healthcare for the elderly is regulated in Law Number 36 of 2009 concerning Health. Healthcare efforts for the elderly are meant to ensure that they remain healthy and productive, in both social and economic terms, to befit their dignity as human beings. 

The Ministry of Health has confirmed that an Indonesian citizen has tested positive for monkeypox. The patient is a 27-year-old male, with a history of traveling to European countries (Netherlands, Swiss, Belgium, and France) since 22 July, arriving in Jakarta on 8 August. The patient’s PCR test result confirmed positive infection on 19 August. 

Eyelid tumors are frequently underestimated, as it is difficult to recognize and generally show no clinical symptoms. However, if you don’t handle it as early as possible, it might grow, or even become cancerous. To find out whether or not you have a tumor, and whether it is benign or malignant, you need an anatomical pathology check by taking tissue samples and analyzing them (biopsy). 

The Health Ministry revealed the potential for Indonesia to be free from the shackle of the Covid-19 pandemic so that people can return to normal life by January 2023.

Health Ministry confirmed that one Indonesian citizen has contracted monkeypox. The patient is a 27-year-old man, with a history of travel to the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and France.

Lung cancer is a type of neoplasm that is hard to detect, as its symptoms are only felt when it has reached an advanced stage. Therapy in lung cancer management must be comprehensive, and it must be supported by correct diagnosis to ensure its optimality.

Thanks to a recent internal police scandal, the term “forensic” gets quite bandied around in social media. Forensic processes are led by doctors with forensic medical background. In general, “forensic medicine” is the field of medicine that studies the implementation of medical principles for legal purposes, whether civil or criminal, in order to support justice. Because of this skill, forensic experts are frequently involved in legal investigations. 

Indonesia is the country with the third-highest incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, right after India and China. The 2021 Global Tuberculosis Report declared that 824,000 TB cases were reported in Indonesia for the year, 40,000 of them suffered by children. 

Tuberculosis or TB/TBC is an infectious disease that primarily attacks the lungs, primarily the parenchyma or tracheobronchial parts of the organ. “Miliary TB” is classified as TB in the lungs, because it causes lesions there. Here are the other organs that it attacks.

Couples who are married for a year or more, but still not blessed with a child, can enroll in pregnancy programs if they choose to. “These programs are adjusted to match the condition of the couple. They prepare the couple’s physical and mental readiness to face pregnancy: for the future mother, so that they can undergo a healthy pregnancy based on healthy eggs; for the future father, so that they develop healthy sperm that will generate healthy babies, and so that they can support their wives during and after the pregnancy and childbirth,” said dr. Yassin Yanuar MIB, Sp.OG, KFER, M.Sc., Bamed Clinic infertility consultant, in the “Road to Bamed Clinic Anniversary” webinar held late last month.