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Sat, 06/13/2009 - 09:08
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MINISTER TO ACT AGAINST HOSPITALS MISUSING 'INTERNATIONAL' LABEL
Surabaya, June 13 (ANTARA) - Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said her office would coordinate with the foreign ministry to verify the validity of the term "international" some hospitals in the country had added to their names.
She would take the initiative after Omni International Hospital, which recently was involved in a dispute with an ex-patient, proved to have used the label unjustifiably.
"Omni International Hospital is not an international one. It is owned by Indonesians," the minister said here Friday.
The minister made the statement when asked about the case of Prita Mulyasari, the housewife who was jailed for several weeks after Omni International Hospital had reported her to the police for defamation because she had told friends in an e-mail on the Internet about bad service she had experienced as a patient at the hospital.
Supari said she had summoned the hospital's management and the Indonesian Medical Ethics and Discipline Council (MKDKI) on Mulyssari's case and it was agreed at the meeting, the health ministry would defer action related to the case pending the outcome of the ongoing legal process. "If, in the legal process, the hospital is found guilty , there will be a measure by the health ministry and it will be based on a recommendation from the MKDKI," Supari said.
"But one thing is sure, I will also address the use of the 'international' label by private hospitals that have nothing to at all with anything international," she said.
She would take the initiative after Omni International Hospital, which recently was involved in a dispute with an ex-patient, proved to have used the label unjustifiably.
"Omni International Hospital is not an international one. It is owned by Indonesians," the minister said here Friday.
The minister made the statement when asked about the case of Prita Mulyasari, the housewife who was jailed for several weeks after Omni International Hospital had reported her to the police for defamation because she had told friends in an e-mail on the Internet about bad service she had experienced as a patient at the hospital.
Supari said she had summoned the hospital's management and the Indonesian Medical Ethics and Discipline Council (MKDKI) on Mulyssari's case and it was agreed at the meeting, the health ministry would defer action related to the case pending the outcome of the ongoing legal process. "If, in the legal process, the hospital is found guilty , there will be a measure by the health ministry and it will be based on a recommendation from the MKDKI," Supari said.
"But one thing is sure, I will also address the use of the 'international' label by private hospitals that have nothing to at all with anything international," she said.
