Healthcare reforms are set to attract foreign doctors to practise in the country, but patients say they will continue seeking treatment abroad unless overall health facilities improve.
On July 11, Indonesia’s Parliament approved reforms to its healthcare sector, in a bid to improve service standards and stem the outflow of local patients who spend up to 160 trillion rupiah (RM48.1bil) annually for treatment overseas, including in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.
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