Indonesia’s Health Minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, said at the Sweden-Indonesia Sustainability Partnership (SISP) Healthcare Conference on Tuesday (27/5/25,) that the ministry has signed several MoUs with its Swedish counterpart to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the healthcare sector, according to reporting from Antara News.
The MoU signing reflects the shared commitment of Indonesia and Sweden to enhance the health status and quality of life of the Indonesian people.
Sadikin said that the “collaborations in healthcare are very similar across the world, such as this between Indonesia and Sweden, because our objective is the same: To save the people.”
Antara News says that the first MoU inked by the Indonesian and Swedish health ministries covers cooperation in various healthcare aspects, including the exchange of information and expertise, technology capacity-building and training, and support for Indonesia-Sweden joint venture in the healthcare industry.
Signed by Minister Sadikin and his Swedish counterpart Acko Ankarberg Johansson, the ministerial-level MoU will also serve as the basis for further collaboration in precision medicine and robotic surgery, the use of artificial intelligence and digital tech in the healthcare sector, and the development of healthcare policies.
The second MoU, signed by the ministry’s Secretariat General and Swedish healthcare company Essity, covers capacity building and exchange on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) management.
Under the third MoU, inked by the ministry’s Directorate General of Advanced Healthcare and Swedish investment firm Swedfund, 9 million Swedish Krona in funding will be provided for the feasibility study of a radiotherapy center, says Antara News, who add that the two parties agreed the first feasibility study would take place at Jakarta’s Dharmais Cancer Hospital.
Another MoU, signed between the ministry’s Directorate for Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control and vaccine company AstraZeneca, will seek to advance collaboration on non-communicable disease prevention.
Besides the four MoUs, Indonesia and Sweden also witnessed the launch of a pilot scheme of the GARDA (Growing Access to Reliable Diagnostics for Adolescent Boys) project by Swedish company HemoCue in Jakarta schools.
The program, organized under the purview of the Jakarta Health Office, aims to support anemia diagnosis among adolescents in Jakarta.
Source: Antara News
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