SHAH ALAM: Seorang wanita kelihatan sebak di Mahkamah Majistret di sini, semalam, apabila dihukum denda RM20,000 selepas didapati bersalah menjalankan operasi pusat perubatan moden tanpa lesen di premisnya, tiga tahun lalu.

Siti Ea’lla Amir Ghani, 55, turut berdepan hukuman penjara enam bulan sekiranya dia gagal menjelaskan denda berkenaan.

Keputusan itu dibuat Majistret Hafizah Abdul Rajak selepas pihak pembelaan gagal menimbulkan keraguan munasabah atas tuduhan terhadap tertuduh.

Mengikut pertuduhan, Siti Ea’lla didakwa adalah pemilik syarikat Ea’lla Enterprise dengan menjalankan operasi jagaan ‘ambulation’ (melakukan perubatan moden kepada pesakit) swasta tanpa lesen di premisnya.

Dia dituduh melakukan perbuatan itu di sebuah premis di Seksyen 8, di sini, pada jam 1 petang, 11 Oktober 2006.

Bagi pertuduhan itu, Siti Ea’lla didakwa mengikut Seksyen 3 © Akta Kemudahan dan Perkhidmatan Rawatan Kesihatan Swasta 1998 dan boleh dikenakan denda maksimum RM300,000 atau penjara tidak melebihi enam tahun atau kedua-duanya, jika disabit kesalahan.

Peguam V Kumaresan yang mewakili wanita itu dalam hujahan mengurangkan hukuman berkata, anak guamnya kini menjalani perniagaan makanan dengan pendapatan kira-kira RM2,000 sebulan untuk menanggung keluarganya yang mempunyai enam anak.

Menurutnya, hukuman yang minimum perlu diberikan kepada anak guamnya kerana dia memberi kerjasama ketika pihak berkuasa melakukan siasatan terhadapnya.

Bagaimanapun, Timbalan Pendakwa Raya daripada Kementerian Kesihatan, Norfaiza Mohamed Noordin, membantah kerana mengikut pertuduhan itu menunjukkan tertuduh melakukan kesalahan serius.

Menurutnya, mahkamah perlu menjatuhkan hukuman pencegahan supaya menjadi pengajaran kepada tertuduh dan masyarakat.

Akhbar sebelum ini melaporkan pegawai kesihatan Selangor menyerbu ke premis milik tertuduh selepas mendapat laporan suaminya menjalankan perniagaan perkhidmatan perubatan moden termasuk melakukan pembedahan.

Lelaki itu didakwa menawarkan khidmat rawatan bagi pelbagai penyakit termasuk batu karang dan ketumbuhan.

Ketika serbuan, pegawai pihak berkuasa mendapati lelaki berkenaan merawat pesakitnya dalam bilik yang mempunyai pelbagai kelengkapan seperti sebuah hospital lengkap dengan peralatan perubatan, buku, poster serta model rangka manusia.

Bagaimanapun, ketika serbuan kedua yang dibuat sebulan kemudian, lelaki itu dikatakan sudah mengendalikan klinik berkenaan sejak lebih 10 tahun lalu dan mengenakan bayaran di antara RM350 hingga RM4,000 kepada pesakitnya, sempat melarikan diri.

Materia Medica Malaysiana
January 23, 2007
Woman first to be charged under Act

NST: SHAH ALAM: A businesswoman is facing a lengthy jail sentence and a hefty fine for allowing her husband to practise modern medicine illegally in a building owned by her.
Siti Ea’lla Amir Ghani, 52, made history yesterday when she became the first person to be charged with the offence under the Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998.
The Act was gazetted in May and enforced in November last year.
Siti, the owner of Ea’lla Enterprise, claimed trial after she was charged for allegedly allowing her husband to use her premises for an unlawful trade.
The husband is a registered traditional medical practitioner but is not licensed to practice modern medicine.
The alleged offence was committed at No. 3, Jalan Sejat 8/10, Section 8, here, at 1pm on Oct 11.
She faces a maximum fine of RM300,000 or six years’ jail, or both.
Magistrate Hafizah Abd Rajak fixed trial for March 5.
Deputy public prosecutor from the Health Ministry Salahudin Hidayat Shariff prosecuted, while Siti was represented by V. Kumaresan.
She was accompanied by a couple who shielded her from Press photographers after the proceedings at the magistrate’s court.
Siti, dressed in a blue baju kurung, ran out of the courtroom to her car.
While the man shielded her face with a newspaper, the woman prevented photographers from running after her.
The man also kept yelling at the photographers, accusing them of being inhumane.
Siti’s husband was in the news in October last year when Selangor health officers raided the clinic after receiving reports that he was practising modern medicine and also performing surgeries.
He was alleged to have removed kidney stones, tumours, ovarian cysts and other diseased body parts.
When the raiding party visited the clinic, they were surprised to see the “doctor” attending to patients in a hospital setting, surrounded by medical equipment, models of the human skeleton, posters and medical books.
Health Ministry officers raided the clinic the following month and seized surgical and other equipment. The “doctor” fled before the officers arrived.
He had been operating at the clinic for more than 10 years and his patients included foreigners.
Checks by the authorities also revealed that patients were charged between RM350 and RM4,000 by the “doctor” who also offered traditional cures.

This post has been edited by PangurBan: Apr 26 2011, 09:50 AM