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Health Ministry reprimands 3 teaching hospitals following bullying reports
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he Health Ministry has issued a warning to three government-owned teaching hospitals after their medical residents filed reports of alleged hazing during their training.
The three hospitals are Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM) in Jakarta, Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java, and Haji Adam Malik Hospital in Medan, South Sumatra.
The reprimand came only a month after the Health Ministry banned bullying of doctors in medical specialist training in government-owned teaching hospitals and launched a hazing reporting platform for medical residents.
The ministry's inspector general Murti Utami said her office has since then received 91 reports of bullying, 44 of which came from residents of a number of teaching hospitals under the ministry.
"We have investigated 12 out of the 44 reports and decided to issue a warning for the three hospitals where the incidents took place, so they can take necessary steps [to stop the bullying]," Murti said in a press briefing on Thursday.
She did not reveal who the offenders were but said that the harassment of medical residents in the three hospitals ranges from demanding residents pay for items that were unrelated to their education to subjecting residents to grueling work hours.
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