Unpad Rector appreciated the Ministry of Health about freezing PPDs at RSHS

Jakarta -Unpad rector Arief Shamsulaksana Carthasasmita responded to the decision of the Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin to temporarily freeze the activities of the Specialist Doctors Training Program (PPDs) of his students at Hasan Sadikin Hospital (RSHS) Bandung. Arief claims to respect the decision. “Of course, we respect the decision of the Ministry of Health because it is all for a better education. But what is meant is not to stop education, but stop the hospital as a place for educational services,” Arief said, reports Detikjabar Saturday (12/4/2025). Arief said the freezing point performed by the Minister of Health is not in all educational processes in all areas of medical Unopad. Instead, he said, the freezing point was only performed in PPDS education at RSHS Bandung. Browse to continue with content “because actually, if the stop of education is to be done by universities and faculties. So the Ministry of Health in that case will certainly stop education at Hasan Sadikin Hospital as a place for educational specialist doctors of FK Unpad anesthesia,” he said. Arief said the education of the anesthesia doctor would continue in hospitals that worked with UNPad. He transferred that the temporary freezing point was only performed at RSHS Bandung. “His anesthesia training delivered earlier because there were actually other hospitals except Hasan Sadikin Hospital, and we also used other hospitals for the education process, other Network hospitals, Unpad and others hospitals,” Arief said. Read more here. (AMW/IDH) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here