Jakarta, Dec. 8 -- President Prabowo Subianto ordered the Ministry of Health to deploy medical intern to handle post-flood diseases in Sumatra, such as diarrhea, Acute Respiratory Infections, and skin diseases.

"I think our intern doctors can be deployed," he said during a talk with Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a meeting in Aceh on Sunday (December 7).

The deployment of medical interns is necessitated by a shortage of health workers in Sumatra, as local physicians were also affected by the flooding.

Medical interns participate in a mandatory 12-month program aimed at improving their competence, self-reliance, and professionalism after graduation, overseen by the Ministry of Health in hospitals and community health centers.

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