Officials
take action after hospital allegedly fails to treat a girl because her parents
could not make advance payment.
Indonesia's health ministry has urged all
hospitals to treat poor patients in an emergency, even if they cannot afford
the treatment.
The government action comes two weeks after a
10-month-old girl died in a hospital, and her parents say she was not treated
because they were unable to pay in advance.
However, the hospital management says that
staff continued treating the baby even as they kept asking the parents for
money.
Indonesia has a medical insurance system for
poor people, but many people are not registered and the records are outdated.
So, it is standard hospital procedure to ask patients to pay upfront.
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from West
Java.
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