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VOINews, Jakarta - Deputy Health Minister Dante Saksono Harbuwono has said he is confident that Indonesia will be able to produce quality medical devices to meet people's needs.

"To accelerate domestic production of medical devices, medicines, and vaccines, the government requires the active role of all parties, including industry and universities," he observed at the re-launch of the Mixsafe Transport Infant Blending Resuscitator in Jakarta on Monday.

He said that accelerating the production of quality medical devices will require the role of three related parties: the government, industry, and universities.

The government has the political and legal capital to devise regulations to support accelerated production and guarantee product purchases, Harbuwono explained.

Meanwhile, he said, the private industry has the venture capital to provide investment and production capacity for medical devices.

Universities also have science capital, namely researchers and innovators who can initiate the creation of medical device products, he pointed out.

"With the active role of these three parties, I am sure we can produce quality medical device products and meet the needs of the community," he emphasized.

Harbuwono then lauded the efforts made by a number of local industries that produce medical devices. He said that those industries are helping carry out the third pillar of health transformation, namely health resilience.

"The third pillar is in line with Presidential Instruction Number 6 of 2016 to accelerate the development of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, as well as Presidential Instruction Number 2 of 2022 to accelerate the use of domestic products," he added.

With the transformation and the issuance of the presidential instructions, the volume of medicinal raw materials and medical devices produced domestically has increased, Harbuwono informed.

This has been indicated by the fall in the percentage of medical device import transactions from 88 percent to 70 percent in 2021–2022, he disclosed.

Therefore, he said he hopes that the industrial sector can work together with universities to increase the domestic production of medical devices.

The Mixsafe Transport Infant Blending Resuscitator is a portable baby respirator made by researchers from the University of Indonesia (UI). The device works to supply oxygen and medical gases at a specified concentration for babies and has a battery life of six hours. (Antaranews)