The Tarakan Regional Hospital began the process of health checkup on the Prospective Jakarta Governor and Deputy Governor 2024, Friday (8/30). As planned, the health check process at Tarakan Regional Hospital will last until Sunday (9/1).

We're preparing the entire team of the best specialist

On the first day, the Prospective Governor Candidate Pramono Anung and his Deputy Rano Karno will undergo a health medical checkup.

Tarakan RSUD Director, Dian Ekowati said his party was proud to be entrusted with the task of examining the prospective gubernatorial and deputy gubernatorial candidates. To ensure the success of this examination process, the team has prepared a team consisting of specialist doctors, consultants, and competent health workers.

"We're preparing the entire team of the best specialist and sub-specialist doctors that we have to be able to run this major task," she explained.

His party was committed to making the stages a success, which is a mandate of the Regional Head Election Law. Hence, the staff would make maximum efforts to undergo this health examination process.

According to the examination schedule, they were slated to undergo various medical check-ups, starting from ENT, dental and oral examinations, internal medicine, EKG, MRI examination, intelligence test, graphic personality test, and papikostic personality test. It started from 7.45 AM to 6.25 PM.

"Hopefully, the whole process can run smoothly and safely in the end," she hoped.

Tarakan RSUD Vice Director, Weningtyas Punomorini added the examination process involved 20 doctors assisted by 20 support teams consisting of nurses, laboratory analysts, radiographers, audiologists, and others.

"This checkup is started with psychiatry and psychological tests by psychologists, followed by examinations by physical doctors," she explained.

She added the checkup results would be held at a meeting to determine the eligibility of each pair of prospective candidates. According to the technical guidelines from the General Election Commission (KPU), the report results will state whether or not it is feasible as an assessment.

"The checkup results will undergo a plenary process, before being determined as a health assessment report for each prospective candidate pair," she concluded.

Jakarta Bawaslu Dispute Resolution Division Coordinator, Reki Putra Jaya uttered his party would supervise the health medical checkup, in accordance with the rules and regulations enforced by the hospital health team.

"We may not supervise everything directly, because there are special rules from the health team that we must adhere to," he stated.