Griya Husada Hospital vacated

Griya Husada Hospital vacated

SURABAYA: The dispute over a building occupied by Griya Husada
Hospital at Jl. Bubutan Galur here has ended with the court
decision to transfer ownership of the building.

Eviction of the hospital was conducted on Tuesday amid the
cries of nurses and employees, following the reading of the city
court and Supreme Court verdicts by a bailiff in front of the
hospital's emergency unit.

The execution of the court verdict started with the relocation
of 22 patients undergoing treatment in Griya Husada Hospital to
Dr. Soetomo General Hospital.

Prior to the eviction, police closed Jl. Bubutan Galur to all
vehicles except 20 trucks, which were assigned to carry medical
equipment and supplies from the building to a warehouses in
Margamulya Indah.

The sudden vacation of the hospital prompted an uproar from
100 hospital employees, mostly nurses. Two nurses screamed
hysterically before collapsing unconscious. One woman, Maimunah,
wept and moaned, saying that her one-year-old baby died because
all of the nurses had panicked.

Griya Husada Hospital was established under the name of Mardi
Santosa Hospital in 1931. A legal dispute between hospital
management and Tommy Dje, an investor from Semarang, began one
year ago after the hospital rejected sale of the property to
Tommy, alleging that the 1994 transaction between him and the
previous owner, the Western Indonesia Protestant Church, was
illegal.

The city court and Supreme Court found in favor of Tommy in
the dispute. (nur/sdt)