NAME : AYU NURAENI

CLASS : 2C

NIM : 2109190053

TITLE : The Topic Of Controversy About Opening The Medical Data Of Covid-19 Patients For Public

The COVID-19 pandemic is a worldwide event of the spread of Coronavirus disease (Coronavirus disease
2019) for all countries. This disease is caused by a new type of coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2. The
COVID-19 outbreak was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China on December 1, 2019, and
was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. As of November
14, 2020, more than 53,281,350 people were affected cases of this virus, have been reported in more
than 219 countries resulting in more than 1,301,021 people died.

Because more and more people are infected with this virus, some people suggest that the government
should open complete medical data for Covid patients because it is to facilitate detection, if the data is
not disclosed, it will be difficult to detect difficulties and identify who is infected by health workers.

Supporters of this idea state that with identification that is not properly disclosed, health workers do not
understand who is sick, who is not, so that many health workers are infected from people who come to
health facilities if the government opens data on Covid-19 cases, then the transmission Covid-19 can be
prevented immediately. In addition, the level of Covid-19 transmission in health facilities and medical
personnel can also be reduced.

However, it becomes a serious problem if the complete patient data is disclosed. First, if the patient's
data is disclosed, there is a concern that it will cause panic and noise because the data is not to be
disseminated to the public, but only for the purposes of handling cases. Therefore, both doctors and
hospitals are obliged to maintain the confidentiality of patient data who are positive for Covid19.
However, the laboratory is still required to provide the patient's data to the Health Office for contact
tracing purposes. So in that case it is the duty of doctors in the hospital to maintain confidentiality. But
also the obligation of the hospital laboratory to submit data to the Health Office is usually done.

Second, it is very narrow-minded to assume that opening up complete patient medical data because we
live in a country that has many rules. Maintaining the confidentiality of patient data has also been
regulated in the Laws and Regulations of the Minister of Health as in Article 48 of Law Number 29 of
2004 concerning Medical Practice, Article 7 of Law Number 36 of 2009 concerning Health, Article 38 of
Law Number 44 of 2009 concerning Hospitals, Article 73 of Law No. 36 of 2014 concerning Health
Workers. So in that case it is the duty of doctors in the hospital to maintain confidentiality. But also the
obligation of the hospital laboratory to submit data to the Health Office is usually done.

Although opening the medical data of COVID-19 patients may seem like a simple solution, it is not a
good way to minimize the spread of this virus. The Minister of Health related to the obligations of
doctors also still has to maintain confidentiality and also the hospital is not allowed to open patient
medical data, it will be a serious problem because it violates the laws and regulations of the minister of
health.