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No Days Off for Doctors in Remote Areas

Monday, June 30, 2025

Many regions lack medical specialists such as ob-gyns and anesthesiologists—often with fatal consequences for patients.

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Health workers examine indigenous communities in the Mentawai Islands through the BPJS Kesehatan state health insurance program, September 26, 2022. Antara/HO-BPJS Kesehatan. . tempo : 177105733532.

THE atmosphere was tense in the delivery room of the Sirombu Community Health Center, West Nias, North Sumatra, in mid-June 2022. Early that morning, a mother suffered heavy bleeding after giving birth. “I was the only one on duty; there were no ob-gyns,” said Agung Paranata Damanik, a former general practitioner (GP) in Sirombu, when contacted by Tempo on Friday, June 27, 2025.

Agung diagnosed the patient with uterine atony&mda

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Dede Leni Mardiyanti contributed to the writing of this article.

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