📋 Tender Overview
Status: Approved
Status: ApprovedLoan
The primary healthcare and public health laboratories upgrading and strengthening project will assist the ministry of health in strengthening primary care services and public health laboratories. along with three multilateral development banks, adb will cofinance the provision of equipment to upgrade and enhance the capacity of primary care facilities and public health laboratories throughout the country. it will also help address the adverse health impact of climate change and improve the preparedness and resilience of the health system to handle future public health threats. the outcome of project will be equitable access to primary care and public health laboratory services for the prevention, detection, and treatment of communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and other health conditions, expanded.
Primary care transformation. in indonesia, government primary care providers account for about 60% of all primary care providers and include (i) about 10,321 community health centers or puskesmas, and about 48,000 auxiliary puskesmas or pustus, staffed by health professionals; and (ii) around 300,000 posyandus operated by around 1.5 million community health workers (kaders), as volunteers, who provide public health services to households, with a focus on maternal and child health services. the strengthening of these primary care providers and tier 1 public health laboratories (labkesmas) is pivotal for achieving universal health coverage (uhc) and other sustainable development goals (sdgs) in health. up to 90% of the essential uhc interventions are primary care interventions, and up to 75% of the projected health gains from the sdg health targets could be achieved through strengthened primary care. , moh will implement reforms in governance and policymaking capacity, standardization of the life cycle-based primary care service delivery model, digital transformation of primary care, and enhancement of skills and capacities of primary care providers including kaders in posyandus.
the life cycle-based primary care approach will provide continuous, age-appropriate promotive and preventive services to expedite further reductions in maternal and neonatal mortality, stunting, and major communicable and ncds. it will also address the emerging health needs of older people and adolescents, including mental health. the strengthening of the pustus will extend primary care professionals to villages to provide primary care, particularly maternal and child health care, and the prevention of gender-based violence. a revitalized tier-1 labkesmas located in puskesmas will support early detection and surveillance of common communicable diseases and ncds. these reforms are supplemented by the promotion of the use of digital tools in primary care and tier-1 labkesmas, and the improvement of the quality and competitiveness of health human resources, including their increased awareness of climate change, and the adoption of mit
