PROTECTION OF WORKERS IN A HEALTH SECTOR AGAINST OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES DURING COVID19 PANDEMIC IN INDONESIA

The health sector who are at risk of contracting Covid-19. This research aimed to examine
the form of legal protection for workers in the health sector for occupational diseases during the
Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia and their legal remedies. This legal research is normative with a
statute approach. The results showed that the workers in the health sector consisting of doctors,
nurses, other health workers and non-health workers who work in health service facilities. It really
needed the legal protection in the form of guarantees for protection of their lives from the dangers
of Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia through statutory regulations that categorize Covid-19 as a form
of occupational disease. The workers diagnosed with occupational disease that based on a doctor's
certificate was entitled to work accident benefits even though the employment relationship has ended.
Even though each worker had understood the risks of work and worked according to safety
procedures. The criteria for occupational diseases originating from Covid-19 must be based on the
relationship between COVID-19 pandemic and work carried out by health workers, non- health
workers and non-health workers. The workers who work in health service facilities. The formof
guarantee provided by the state to workers who suffer from Covid-19 pandemic as a work-related
disease that got the treatment according to medical needs until recovery. The funding is borne by
the central government through Health Social Security Agency. Receive compensation in the form
of money and disability benefits. The resulting recommendation revised the scope of the subject
receiving occupational disease insurance in the form of covid-19 to be broader not limited to workers
in the health sector.
Keywords: Health Sector Workers, Covid-19, Legal Protection