Jakarta, Feb. 16 -- Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said the existence of the Hospital-Based Specialist Doctor Education Program (PPDS) is a strategy to overcome the specialist doctors shortage in Indonesia.

"There is a huge shortage in specialist doctors in Indonesia that we overcome with the Hospital-based PPDS system," he said in a press conference at the 2025 National Working Conference of the Indonesian Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Association in Jakarta on Sunday.

Sadikin informed that Indonesia is facing shortage in specialist doctors, including thoracic and cardiovascular surgeons.

Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeons are specialist doctors for diseases in the organs in the chest cavity, especially the heart and lun...