Indonesia's health ministry has urged all hospitals to treat poor patients in an emergency, even if they cannot afford the treatment.<br /><br />The government action comes two weeks after a 10-month-old girl died in a hospital, and her parents say she was not treated because they were unable to pay in advance.<br /><br />However, the hospital management says that staff continued treating the baby even as they kept asking the parents for money.<br /><br />Indonesia has a medical insurance system for poor people, but many people are not registered and the records are outdated. So, it is standard hospital procedure to ask patients to pay upfront.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from West Java.
