UNAIR NEWS – The Ksatria Airlangga Floating Hospital (RSTKA) won two awards in the 2021 Indonesia Healthcare Innovation (IHIA) Award. The Platinum Award and Favorite Award were won with their work entitled “Ksatria Airlangga Floating Hospital as a Solution to Health Problems in Isolated Areas.”
In an interview on Thursday, December 2, 2021, dr. Raissa Virgy Rianda of the research team of RSTKA said that she and her colleagues from RSTKA Community Service of Maluku (dr. Arya, dr. Satrio, dr. Juan) prepared the materials for the event only one week before the closing. She admitted that she never expected to win the Platinum Award and Favorite Award in the Service Quality Innovation Category.
“When the winners of other categories gave their remarks, I thought we (RSTKA, ed) would not win anything because we were not notified beforehand. However, during the announcement, we were surprised. Thank God, we won Platinum and Favorite award. For us, winning is only a bonus. What matters is that RSTKA can continue to provide benefits to the community and be better known by the wider community to spread the positivity of the service,” said dr. Raissa.
Raissa revealed that in the event, RSTKA included the innovations carried out for a long time, such as health services on remote islands. RSTKA provides not only general services but also specialist services that are out of reach. Since 2017, RSTKA has provided services to 61 islands, 42 deliveries, 15366 general polyclinics, 2090 volunteers, 1362 surgeries, and 1243 eye surgeries.
In addition to health services, RSTKA also conducts research on the visited islands so that the data can be useful for other researchers. Not only that, RSTKA also actively conducts health webinars widely known as NGOBRAS (Casual chat with experts) every week. NGOBRAS is a seminar especially aimed at doctors, nurses, and other health workers.
“In the event, a presentation by Dr. dr. Gadis Meinar Sari, M.Kes, highlighted our program, MARCO (Madura Aware of COVID). This program is in the form of education about COVID, health services, and vaccinations carried out in Madura. This activity also gets support from the government,” she added.
On the same occasion, dr. Agus Harianto SpB said that RSTKA will try to convince the health ministry to consider a maritime-based healthcare system by forming healthcare fleets in a year. With the fleets, more remote islands in Indonesia can be reached. RSTKA is also currently running a maritime-based pilot project in Madura. The project covers not only healthcare services, but also research-based ones.
“I hope that the graduates of general practitioners and new specialists will dare to explore remote islands because doctors are very much needed there. Do not be afraid of being unable to meet your needs, as God will provide them for you. There are many people who need us. We have encountered many severe cases because they cannot reach the hospital,” she concluded. (*)
Author: Alysa Intan Santika
Editor: Nuri Hermawan
