Jakarta, Feb. 2 -- Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that all Indonesian citizens will get mental health screening services, which are planned to get started in February 2025.

"This is the biggest program of the Health Ministry, and probably one of the biggest for the government because the coverage reaches 280 million (people)," he said in Jakarta on Sunday.

According to him, the government had prepared 10,000 community health centers (puskesmas) and 15,000 clinics across the country to support the program.

The program is expected to become the government's biggest program, surpassing the COVID-19 vaccination program which reached around 200 million people.

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