Jakarta, Oct. 7 -- Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that the Soedirman National Defense Central Hospital (RSPPN) will be designated as a teaching hospital to expand education in seven key medical specializations and meet national healthcare needs.

"President Prabowo has instructed that efforts to increase the number of medical specialists must be accelerated to complement the more evenly distributed medical equipment across hospitals in Indonesia," Sadikin said here on Tuesday.

The seven essential medical specializations include pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, anesthesiology, radiology, and clinical pathology.

The minister emphasized the urgent need to expand hospital-based education, noting...