Eight Real Actions of Bilateral Diplomacy in the G20 Health HMM
The Ministry of Health produced eight concrete actions from a bilateral meeting between Minister of Health Budi G. Sadikin and other world health leaders. Produced during the two days of holding the second meeting of the G20 Ministers of Health which was held in Bali, 27-28 October 2022.
"There are eight bilateral agreements with other G20 countries, which will soon be followed up on their implementation," said Minister of Health Budi.
The first real action is the continuation of the cooperation (MoU) in the health sector for the next five years between Indonesia and South Korea. The area of cooperation in question is in line with the six pillars of health transformation currently being carried out by Indonesia.
One of them is in the transformation of pillars one and six, starting from the expansion of medical services in hospitals, to accelerating collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry and Korean hospitals.
The second concrete action, Indonesia was invited by South Africa to visit an industry that produces mRNA-based vaccines in Capetown.
"Exchange of information with South Africa on how to improve genomic and mRNA sequencing," said Minister of Health Budi
This is in line with South Africa's interest in collaborating with the southern G20 countries in establishing research and manufacturing centers for vaccines, therapies/treatments, and diagnostics (VTD).
The bilateral meeting with Saudi Arabia resulted in the third concrete action, with Saudi Arabia's grant of US$ 5 million for meningitis medicine and vaccines for Hajj and Umrah travellers. In addition, US$ 10 million from the United Arab Emirates for TB control in Indonesia.
Indonesia continues to make diplomatic efforts so that Saudi Arabia contributes to the prevention of the pandemic through the Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF), and requests Saudi support to strengthen research and manufacture of VTDs in low-middle-income countries.
In addition, the Ministry of Health together with BP2MI and the Ministry of Manpower held discussions regarding the MoU, especially regarding the agreement on the placement of nurses.
The fourth real action is by exploring the potential for collaboration between Spain and Indonesia. Spain will be the President of the European Union in the second half of 2023 and Indonesia as the next ASEAN Chair in 2023.
The Minister of Health also thanked Spain for its greatest support in the Harmonization of Global Health Protocols. Spain successfully held a High Level Meeting on safe international travel and brought Indonesia's intervention to a wider audience to support the initiative.
The next real action, Indonesia was invited to be the co-chair of the World Local Production Forum in 2023 by the Netherlands.
Previously, Indonesia had a five-year cooperation that will end in 2023, focusing on medical and elderly care, infectious disease control, including AMR, global health resilience and other areas of cooperation.
Minister of Health Budi hopes that in the future there will be Dutch support in capacity building related to VTD and knowledge transfer programs on drug regulation and supervision considering that the Netherlands is the host of the EMA (European Medicine Agency).
The sixth concrete action was obtained from a bilateral meeting with Germany through a pre-departure training program. Through this concrete action, it is hoped that more nurses will be able to work in Germany.
The seventh concrete action was obtained from cooperation with the United States through the exploration of the ARPA-H project, which is a research center under the coordination of the US National Institute of Health (NIH).
"We will ask the NIH Institutes to create a clinical research unit in the best Indonesian hospital for research and development," added the Minister of Health.
Previously, the cooperation in the health sector between Indonesia and the United States had been signed since May 21, 2019 in Geneva.
Minister of Health Budi also asked CDC to support the construction of the Indonesian National Public Health Laboratory (LABKESMAS) in forming partnerships and experts. It also asked USAID to sponsor cooperation between US Hospitals (Boston Children, MD Anderson, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Joslin Diabetes, UCLA) and Hospitals in Indonesia.
The bilateral meeting with Brazil resulted in the signing of an MoU between the two parties for collaboration in the transformation of the 3rd pillar related to vaccines, surveillance of infectious diseases and handling of arboviruses as well as efforts to reduce malaria.
Minister of Health Budi said that he would continue to explore the potential for collaboration with other countries as an effort to realize the transformation of health in Indonesia.
"Surely we will not stop here. We will continue to explore other efforts," he said.
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