Prita Mulyasari is an Indonesian housewife and mother of two who in 2008 was a patient at Omni International Hospital in Tangerang, Banten, west of Jakarta, for an illness that was misdiagnosed as dengue fever, whereas she actually had mumps.
[1] 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.
[2] Due to the proximity of the presidential elections in July 2009, the various candidates either visited Prita Mulyasari in jail or publicly commented on the case.
[11][12] Seeing the huge support for Prita, Omni International Hospital dropped the civil lawsuit.
The Supreme Court of Indonesia in June 2012 overturned Prita's conviction and jail sentence.