FREE ASEAN-HEADLINES-1.3.2022: Economy: Indonesia loses out as citizens spend billions on healthcare abroad

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The Jakarta Post – 1.3.22

Economy:

Indonesia loses out as citizens spend billions on healthcare abroad

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COVID-19 patients are treated in a makeshift emergency ward at a government-run hospital in Jakarta on June 29, 2021.(Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)

Indonesian patients continue to have a high appetite for treatment abroad as the government struggles to provide quality medical services, costing the country billions of dollars that could be spent domestically to boost the local healthcare industry.

The government estimates that Indonesians spend between Rp 100 trillion (US$7 billion) and 150 trillion annually for medical services abroad.

The number of Indonesian patients abroad grew to 600,000 in 2015 from 350,000 in 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

It has increased much more since then.

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1.BRUNEI DARUSSALAM

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2. CAMBODIA

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Push to vaccinate more as Omicron threat grows

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A man gets vaccinated with a first dose in Phnom Penh on April 1. KT/Pann Rachana

Amid Omicron and other variants of the Covid-19 virus, health officials are pushing harder to inoculate more people and the Health Ministry is also urging more than 72,000 people who haven’t received jabs due to health problems to consult with doctors again to study the possibility getting vaccinated.

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3. INDONESIA

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8. SINGAPORE

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Singapore economy grows 5.9% in Q4 and 7.2% in 2021, better than expected: Flash data

Singapore’s economy grew 7.2 per cent in 2021. ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG

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SINGAPORE – Singapore’s economy wrapped up 2021 with its fastest growth in more than a decade, putting behind the Republic’s worst recession the year before when the Covid-19 pandemic struck.

The economy grew 7.2 per cent last year, the most since 2010 and higher than earlier estimates, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said on Monday (Jan 3).

MTI in November had predicted that gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2021 would come in at about 7 per cent, the top end of an earlier forecast range of 6 per cent to 7 per cent. The economy had contracted by 5.4 per cent in 2020.

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