Legal Protection of The Right to Health for People with Long-term Health Impact due to Disaster in Indonesia

Abstract

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Indonesia can be concluded to have been resolved now. The Government was accelerating the vaccination process, ensuring the availability of health facilities for handling COVID-19 patients, including hospitals, oxygen, and ventilators, as well as the availability of drugs. One of the things that was still neglected is the handling of Long COVID sufferers. Therefore, the legal regulation of the right to health for long COVID sufferers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia must be examined. The research was conducted with normative legal research with a study approach to legislation and library research. State policy guarantees the fulfillment of the right to health through legal products (primary legal materials) reviewed and then described and analyzed in answering how to fulfill the right to health in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the Indonesian Government has already ensured the fulfillment of the right to health of every citizen. However, fulfilling these rights of long COVID sufferers is still neglected, and no single legal product regulates health protection for long COVID sufferers in Indonesia.