FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker inoculates a woman with a dose of the Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a mass vaccination program at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/File Photo
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will urge the Group of 20 leading economies to establish a global body that can dispense emergency funds during a health crisis, functioning in a similar way to international financial institutions, its health minister said on Friday.
Under the current system, countries are "basically on their own" if they need emergency funds, vaccines, therapeutics or diagnostics, and as G20 president this year, Indonesia will seek to change that, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a news conference.
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