Doctors in our History
WE should learn from doctor Sulianti Saroso.
Tempo
August 17, 2020
In 1970, when she was director-general of prevention, eradication and elimination of communicable diseases at the ministry of health, she saw Indonesia through a smallpox outbreak. While the epidemic lasted for 10 years in many South Asian countries, in Indonesia it was only a third as long. Sulianti took three measures recommended by epidemiologists: mass testing, tracing, and treatment of infected patients. These days we need a swift-acting per
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