The background of this research is “Everyone has the right to obtain health service.
Hospital as a health sevice has responsibility for providing services to everyone.
There are some hospitals that refuse patients for various reasons that are not clear”.
With the formulation of the problem as follows : how is the form of criminal liability
for the private hospital which compound the recruitment of patients. The research
method by means of : this research is normative legal, source of data in this study
consist of data and primary data, research studies focus on the provisions of the
applicable legislation. Criminal Liability of Hospitals in the relief of patients
regulated in law No. 36 of 2009 on health. The conclution that Hospitals in accepting
the patients to provide relief to the prospective patients should attach a great
importance to safety of life of patients in advance, rather than concerned with the
cost of the Hospitals. Hospitals which more concerned with the cost and benefits
without prioritize patients’lives or even refuse patients in need of medical care may
be liable in accordance with the legislation in force.