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Celebrate World Physiotherapy Day, Director General of Social Rehabilitation: Dedicate Yourself to Vulnerable Groups in Indonesia

  • Celebrate World Physiotherapy Day, Director General of Social Rehabilitation: Dedicate Yourself to Vulnerable Groups in Indonesia
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Writer :
Humas Ditjen Rehabilitasi Sosial
Editor :
Annisa YH
Translator :
Karlina Irsalyana

JAKARTA (8 September 2021) - The Ministry of Social Affairs participates in celebrating World Physiotherapy Day which falls on September 8 by opening opportunities for collaboration with various parties. This collaboration is an effort to respect, protect and fulfill the rights of beneficiaries, one of which is persons with disabilities, which is closely related to the practice of physiotherapy.

 

This webinar was organized by the Indonesian Physiotherapy Association with the theme "Indonesia Free from Long Covid". One of the groups also affected by Long Covid is persons with disabilities.

 

Social rehabilitation clusters ranging from children, persons with disabilities, the elderly, victims of drug abuse as well as persons with social deviance issues, and victims of trafficking in persons who require physiotherapy treatment. The Ministry of Social Affairs hopes that there will be follow-up and collaboration in terms of patterns of physiotherapy to assist the government in dealing with social rehabilitation clusters.

 

Based on the Minister of Health Regulation Number 80 of 2013, Physiotherapy is a health service aimed at individuals and/or groups to develop, maintain and restore movement and body functions throughout the life span by using manual handling, movement improvement, and equipment.

 

The role of physiotherapy in the institution is to provide services to beneficiaries of various ages with various conditions of nervous function disorders, disorders of the muscle, joint, and bone system, respiratory system disorders, and growth and development disorders.

 

The Director General of Social Rehabilitation of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Harry Hikmat as one of the resource persons, said that the Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini asked the Directorate General of Social Rehabilitation to increase the capacity in handling beneficiaries starting from human resources and equipment.

 

Therefore, collaboration needs to be built so that it can help the Ministry of Social Affairs therapists in social rehabilitation centers to take action with a physiotherapist approach because the challenge ahead is the early application of physiotherapy for persons with disabilities.

 

Social rehabilitation policies in addition to fulfilling the rights of persons with disabilities, also need to integrate persons with disabilities with social protection and security programs, social empowerment to programs of poverty handling.

"Social Minister Risma said that social rehabilitation is not only trying to change attitudes and behavior but also how to make persons with disabilities independent," said Harry.

Social Rehabilitation is also not only with a residential approach (in the Center/orphanage) but also with a family and community approach. "So it is important to realize how the practice of physiotherapy can be done in families, communities, and homes without having to go to health facilities," continued Harry.

The Ministry of Social Affairs has 41 social rehabilitation centers in which there are therapists. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Social Affairs continues to provide therapeutic services through video calls.

To support physiotherapy activities, Social Minister Risma also asked social rehabilitation centers to refocus their budgets to assist such as hearing aid, electronic aid, health aid, visual aid, breathing apparatus, UEP aid, speech aid, mobility aid, educational aid, therapeutic aid, measuring instruments, books, mattresses, electric wheelchairs, body supports, braille printers, prostheses, technology, walking sticks/aid, blind sticks, and smart sticks.

One of the mobility tools that are emergency in nature is to be provided quickly in a wheelchair. "On the initiative of the Minister of Social Affairs, Risma, that persons with disabilities need to be empowered to be independent, so they are invited to directly assemble electric wheelchairs according to their needs," said Harry.

In line with this, Alexander Ginting as the Head of Health Handling of the Covid-19 Task Force who is also the retired TNI Brigadier General said that physiotherapy has a leading role so that Covid-19 patients can recover and return to the community. Physiotherapy is much needed after the pandemic in dealing with residual symptoms (long covid).

As conveyed by Isnaeni Herawati, Deputy Chair of the Cardio-Respiratory Physiotherapy Association (PAFKRI) that the symptoms of Long Covid that mostly attack are fatigue, shortness of breath, chronic cough, muscle pain, and joint pain. "We physiotherapists are ready to help the government deal with Long Covid and persons with disabilities," she explained.

Kumala Insiwi Suryo, chairman of the Foundation for the Development of Children with Disabilities in Surakarta, appreciated the steps taken by the Ministry of Social Affairs in providing the rights of persons with disabilities. In the future, she hopes to collaborate with the Ministry of Social Affairs to provide much better benefits to special children.
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