Hanibal Hamidi Public Health Expert
The National Health System needs to be evaluated

According to a 2012 World Health Organization (WHO) report, life expectancy in Indonesia is ranked a low 117 out of 193 countries surveyed. This shows how far we still lag behind even among other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, except for Myanmar and Cambodia.

Hanibal Hamidi, Assistant Deputy Minister for Health Resources at the Development of Backward Areas Ministry, tried to overcome this problem directly at the villages. "Ideally, one village should have one doctor," said Hanibal. His ideas are contained in his ministry's Healthy Villages program, which are the results of Hanibal's four-year research.

May 19, 2015