Bengkulu doctor's career blighted

Bengkulu doctor's career blighted

BENGKULU, Bengkulu: A general practitioner here has been prevented from pursuing specialist studies in anesthesia following the prosecution of a local anesthetist for negligence that claimed patients' lives.

Head of the provincial health office Sabri Magrib said on Saturday the Association of Indonesian Anesthetists (IDSAI) had released a circular to all hospitals across the country not to grant access to Bengkulu doctors who wished to follow anesthesia studies, due to the case.

The district court here recently found anesthetist Dodi S. Adipraja guilty and sentenced him to a suspended three months in jail with one month's probation, for causing the death of two patients who underwent surgery at M. Yunus General Hospital in Bengkulu last year.

Sabri lashed out at the move, saying it was a human rights violation.

He said his office and overseas institutions had raised Rp 100 million to sponsor Zulkimaulud Ritonga so that he could take the specialist studies. -- Antara