JAKARTA - Witnessed by the Minister of Health Budi G. Sadikin, Main Director of the National Center for Mental Health Marzoeki Mahdi Hospital Nova Riyanti Yusuf, MD, Ph.D signed a memorandum of understanding with King's College London regarding collaboration on digital perinatal health and psychiatry services at Gran Melia Jakarta, Wednesday (28/2/2024).
Minister of Health Budi welcomed the signing of this collaboration and hoped that both parties could exchange expertise and use technology in mental health.
"I attended the signing of the cooperation agreement between Marzoeki Mahdi Hospital and King's College London to be able to exchange knowledge, exchange experiences, and we can learn a lot about new technologies, new ways, new methods from King's College London," Budi was quoted as saying. from Healthy My Country.
Dr. Nova in his speech said that the existing services at Marzoeki Mahdi Hospital would be further developed with this memorandum of understanding. Later, the development of this service and technology will be applied to all nursing network hospitals in Indonesia.
“At the hospital, we accept pregnant women with HIV, we also provide care to pregnant women with mental disorders. "Why do we have to formalize (this collaboration) through a memorandum of understanding, because we are not only doing this for the National Mental Health Center (PKJN), we are trying to create a model and we are trying to replicate this so that this can be implemented throughout Indonesia," said Dr. Nova
The signing of this memorandum of understanding is the result of a follow-up to the meeting of Prof. Paola Dazzan, who is the Deputy Dean for International Relations at Kings College London, visited Marzoeki Mahdi Hospital on 24 October 2023. The cooperation agreed upon in this memorandum of understanding is related to the development of perinatal mental health services and the development of digital psychiatric technology. (Rianto)