TEMPO.CO, Bekasi - The government of Bekasi Regency has yet to pay Rp4 billion in debt for treatment or poor patients to the Bekasi General Hospital [RSUD Bekasi]. The state-owned hospital has now ceased treating poor patients in the regency on this ground.
“The collaboration has ended since October 2013,” said RSUD Bekasi director Titi Masrifahati on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. According to Titi, the termination was not a unilateral decision.
Titi explained both parties had their own reasons to end the cooperation. She said those who could no longer receive medical treatment from the RSUD were the regency’s deprived with letters explaining their economic conditons from the local administration.
She added, however, the hospital would continue treating citizens under the Social Security Management Agency. “If patients come in a critical condition, we will still accept them,” Titi said.
Titi said the Bekasi administration’s unpaid debt had disrupted the hospital’s cash flow, which resulted in the procurement of medicines and the salary payment of its non-civil service employees.
ADI WARSONO
