PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP TENAGA MEDIS DANKESEHATAN KETIKA BERTUGAS MENANGANI PANDEMI CORONA VIRUS DISEASE-19 DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Now the world is faced with a real problem, namely the Corona Virus Disease 2019
(Covid-19) pandemic. Not only the world is struggling against this pandemic, Indonesia is also
entering a critical period of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this case, the front line in tackling this
pandemic are medical and health personnel. However, the problem is that many medical and
health workers have been exposed to Covid-19 while on duty to treat Covid-19 patients and even
some of the incidents resulted in death. This incident is a big challenge in the midst of the Covid-
19 pandemic considering that medical and health personnel are the main and foremost elements in
handling Covid-19. The purposes of writing this thesis are: first, legal protection for medical and
health personnel when in charge of handling the Corona Virus Disease-19 pandemic in Indonesia,
second, the ideal concept of legal protection for medical and health personnel when in charge of
handling the Corona Virus Disease-19 pandemic in Indonesia.
This type of research is normative legal research that uses literature study in searching
the data. This research is descriptive in nature which tries to provide detailed data on the existing
problems. In writing this research using qualitative data analysis, which means explaining and
concluding about the data that has been collected by the author. This research uses secondary data
or scientific data that has been codified.
 The results of this study are to explain that legal protection for medical and health
personnel when in charge of handling the Corona Virus Disease-19 pandemic in Indonesia has not
been carried out optimally. The ideal concept of legal protection for medical and health workers
when in charge of handling the Corona Virus Disease-19 pandemic in Indonesia is the first, the
ideal concept according to Human Rights. In the form of fulfilling 3 aspects, namely the provision
of economic protection, social protection and the provision of technical protection. These three
aspects can realize the rights of medical and health workers and can also include guarantees for the
protection of the rights of medical and health workers when dealing with patients during the
Covid-19 pandemic. Second, the ideal concept of standard operational procedure because medical
and health personnel always carry out their profession in accordance with applicable standard
operating procedures.
Keywords: Legal Protection - Medical and Health Workers - Corona Virus Disease-19
Pandemic