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Patients complain about private-stock vaccines at hospital
Some parents have complained that they received suspicious receipts after their children were vaccinated with vaccines privately owned by a doctor at Harapan Bunda Hospital in East Jakarta.
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Intan Nugraha, a mother of an 8-month-old infant, shows a receipt from a Harapan Bunda hospital, in East Jakarta during a protest at the hospital on Friday. The receipt was without the stamp and logo of the hospital. (The Jakarta Post/Callistasia Anggun Wijaya)
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ome parents have complained that they received suspicious receipts after their children were vaccinated with vaccines privately owned by a doctor at Harapan Bunda Hospital in East Jakarta.
They said the receipts came without without the hospital logo and stamp.
Intan Nugraha, a mother of an 8-month-old infant, revealed that in April, her son was vaccinated at the hospital.
After injecting the vaccine, the nurse said that the vaccine had come from the private stock of a doctor, Indra Sugiarno, because the hospital had run out of vaccines. Therefore, Intan said she should pay the nurse directly, not through the hospital's cashier.
He also questioned the fact that although she paid Rp 1.7 million (US$ 134) for the treatment, a figure of Rp 750,000 was written on the receipt, as the nurse explained that Rp 1 million would be directly transferred to the hospital account.
Meanwhile, Rudi, a parent of a 6-month-old infant, also complained that the nurse vaccinated his child with “private stock” without consulting him first.
"The doctor injected the patient without asking us if we gave our consent for them to give vaccines to our children that came from their private stock," Rudi said.
On Thursday evening the hospital issued a statement to parents, who were protesting there to demand that it bear the cost of revaccinating all patients who were proven to have received fake vaccines.
The statement said the hospital would bear the consequences of any negative effect that might have come from the fake vaccines. (bbn)
