Udayana Lecturers Provides Technical Assistance on Health Sector Planning At Southwest Sumba Region, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province

The Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Health (MoH), in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, carried out a project called ‘Providing Technical Assistant on Health Sector program planning at Southwest Sumba Region, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) Province.  Dinar Saurmauli Lubis, SKM, MPH, PhD, a lecturer of Master of Public Health Program, has been appointed as team leader and the team member are dr Putu Desak Yuli Kurniawati, M.KM, Dr. Ni Putu Widarini, MPH and Ngakan Putu Anom Harjana, SKM, MA. The team has been governed by the head school of public health and also lecturer at Master of Public Health Program, dr Putu Ayu Swandewi, MPH, Ph,D. The team is also  invited Prof. dr. Pande Januraga, M.Kes, Dr.Ph  as resource person in one of the Workshop.



The project begun from March up to October 2023 and as part of the five-years collaboration between the Planning Bureau of MoH with Medical Faculty. The aim of the project is to enhance capacity of Southwest District of Health (DHO) on developing the Annual Work Plan (RENJA) as well as to optimize DHO staff’s capacity on problem solving, develop health program logic frame, and to escalate multi sectoral collaborations as one strategi to optimise health target achievement.




On March 2023,  an online coordination meeting with the Southwest Sumba DHO was conducted, followed by two focus group discussion (FGD) with representative of 16 Community Health Centre (UPTD PUSKESMAS) and regional Hospital and representatives of all of the divisions at the Southwest Sumba DHO. The aimed of the FGD was to explore health problems, challenges and supporting aspect to improve health sector. The FGD highlight that the Southwest Sumba DHO face triple health burden where the neglected disease, communicable disease such as Malaria are still high, on the other side, the non-communicable disease cases are increase significantly.  The FGD was also highlight the important to enhance the achievement of the DHO Health Minimum Standard target which were still under the target. 




The FGD was followed by several workshops which focus on building capacity of the health programmer from representation of 16 UPTD Community Health Centre and from the Regional Hospital Redabolo as well as from DHO’s staffs. Since the Anual plan of health sectors need to be alligned with District Planning and finance and supported by other governmen body, we also invited  the Southwest regional planning burreau and finance  as well as District  Education office, women empowerment and child protection and BKKBN  in several workshop.


On  Friday, 29th October 2023, a multi-stakeholder meeting was held to discuss on strategi to optimise achievement of Health Minimum Standard Services or SPM. From the DHO report that all 12 SPM indicators are below the target. The SPM performance is important as that of part of the indicator to measure regent and DHO performance as well as reflection of the minimum quality of mandatory services at the district levels. The DHO SPM targets aim to reach 12 target population for health services throughout the life course which are pregnancy, delivery, newborn, children under five, school aged children, productive-age adults and elderly), and to reach several communicable and non-communicable disease such as TBC, HIV and degenerative disease as well as people with psychosocial health issues. 




The meeting was opened  by the Southwest Sumba secretry Region, as for resource person was Prof Ascobat Gani from FKM UI and member of Technical assistants from Udayana.  This events was captured by Suarajarmas, a region government networking media. The news can be found at https://suarajarmas.com/kerjasama-lintas-sektor-diharapkan-mempercepat-pencapaian-target-spm-di-sbd/; and https://suarajarmas.com/rapat-lintas-sektor-dalam-upaya-percepatan-target-spm-kesehatan-di-sbd/