A coalition of medical associations is planning to submit a judicial review and release a subpoena to Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto over a recently provided ministerial regulation on scientific radiology, which the group has actually deemed “an abuse of power”.
The regulation, issued earlier this month, needs health centers providing services including radiation instruments — from neighborhood university hospital to centers and health centers– to utilize radiologists.
” The regulation is an abuse of power, thinking about that Minister Terawan is a radiologist himself, and many medical professionals and dentists state he is focusing on fellow radiologists over others,” union attorney Muhammad Luthfie Hakim said in a composed declaration on Tuesday.
Muhammad stated he and a group of nine other lawyers had studied the regulation and discovered it “filled with disparities” and that it contradicted existing laws. He also stated the group would quickly submit a subpoena for the minister.
” If the minister does not address the subpoena, then we will proceed with the judicial evaluation request to the Supreme Court demanding the ministerial policy be withdrawed,” he included.
Terawan, who is also the head the Indonesian Radiology Specialists Association (PDSRI), has come under a barrage of criticism for providing the policy, which many doctors state could have negative influence on prompt treatment of clients.
In an open letter sent out previously this month, 64 of 76 specialist physician companies and medical specialist academy councils urged Terawan to revoke the policy.
