Doctor accused of malpractice

Doctor accused of malpractice

TANGERANG: A woman reported her doctor from Siloam Gleneagles
Hospital in Karawaci to the Tangerang police for alleged malpractice
saying improper medicine caused her to have a miscarriage.

Irma Effendi, 37, a resident of Serpong, said on Friday that
she had the miscarriage three months into her pregnancy after
being treated at the hospital for two days with an unrelated
ailment.

"I took medicine prescribed by the doctor, but I felt
something was wrong on the second day of treatment at the
hospital," she said.

Shortly thereafter she had a miscarriage.

"The miscarriage is unacceptable and I am sure that the doctor
had made the wrong diagnosis of my illness," she asserted.

Siloam Gleneagles' operations manager, Andre, denied the
allegation, arguing that Irma's weak physical condition was the
cause of the miscarriage.

He claimed that medicine prescribed was based on diagnoses in
accordance with the patient's health condition.

"If the miscarriage occurred because of the medicine, I think
it was an unexpected occurrence," he said.

He claimed that the hospital management had met with Irma four
times to explain the incident.

"We do want her to report this case to the police," he added. --JP