Prita Mulyasari

Prita Mulyasari is an Indonesian housewife and mother of two who in 2008 was a patient at Omni International Hospital in Tangerang, west of Jakarta, for an illness that was misdiagnosed as dengue fever, whereas she actually had mumps. Her complaints about her misdiagnosis started as a private email that went viral and she was jailed after losing a civil defamation suit taken by the hospital in 2009. Support from a group on MySpace attracted considerable support as well as Indonesian blog sites. The Indonesian Supreme Court in June 2012 overturned Prita's conviction and jail sentence.

Prita Mulyasari

Prita Mulyasari is an Indonesian housewife and mother of two who in 2008 was a patient at Omni International Hospital in Tangerang, west of Jakarta, for an illness that was misdiagnosed as dengue fever, whereas she actually had mumps. Her complaints about her misdiagnosis started as a private email that went viral and she was jailed after losing a civil defamation suit taken by the hospital in 2009. Support from a group on MySpace attracted considerable support as well as Indonesian blog sites. The Indonesian Supreme Court in June 2012 overturned Prita's conviction and jail sentence.