Jakarta to build cancer hospital and develop palliative care
21-Jan-15, The Jakarta Post
The Jakarta administration is to build a cancer treatment hospital in West Jakarta, with doors expected to open in 2017.
Head of the Jakarta Health Agency, Koesmedi Priharto, said the hospital would be built on a 3.7 hectare plot of land in West Jakarta adjacent to Sumber Waras Hospital. “We will start construction later this year or early next year, [Jakarta] Governor [Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama] has requested that the cancer treatment hospital be 30 floors high,” Koesmedi announced at City Hall on Tuesday.
He went on to say that the administration would cooperate with the Jakarta chapter of the Indonesia Cancer Foundation (YKI) and the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) to train the city’s healthcare workers.
“We will choose three doctors — one general physician, one internist and one pediatrician — and two nurses from each of the 10 hospitals in Jakarta to receive palliative care training from Singaporean doctors and caretakers from the Rachel House Children’s Hospice,” Koesmedi said.