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Persahabatan Hospital as a national respiration referral hospital has a vision to become a leading Respiratory Center in Asia Pacific by 2019. Persahabatan Hospital Director Mohammad Ali Toha said that the hospital has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Labor Organization of the ILO or the International Labor Organization on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 in Jakarta. To RRI World Service – Voice of Indonesia on Tuesday he explained, the cooperation is done in the field of handling pneumoconiosis patient. Pneumoconiosis is a disease in the lungs caused by working in places of high pollution such as cement plants, mines and so forth. The signing of this cooperation is in the form of certificates to doctors who can handle pneumoconiosis.

"First, we must diagnose. Because in our country a lot of people with pneumoconiosis are not detected. So, we continue to educate them. Doctors are taught to diagnose pneumoconiosis. From the region all will come here to learn. After that, a study will be conducted to find out how big the case of pneumoconiosis in Indonesia is, how severe the case is, then the countermeasures, " Mohammad Ali Toha said. 

Based on the ILO data of 2013, 30% to 50% of workers in developing countries suffer from Pneumoconiosis. Indonesia is a developing country one of  which economic support is industry sector, that is mining industry. Mohammad Ali Toha further explained that Persahabatan Hospital has a vision to become the leading Respiratory Center Hospital in Asia Pacific by 2019. To be a leader in Asia Pacific. It must have a quality service and international standard. Persahabatan Hospital has already had national accreditation and this year it is targeted to get international accreditation.//// (VOI/Sekar/trs Rezha/AHM)