By Mohammad Nura Yusuf
Kano State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency Anti-Corruption Unit has imposed a fine of Five Hundred Thousand Naira on Gwarzo General Hospital over a fraudulent claim for secondary service that was not done by the facility.
The Executive Secretary of the contributory outfit, Dr. Rahila Aliyu Mukhtar stated this when she received the report of the Anti-corruption unit of the Agency headed by the Director Account Investment and contribution Alhaji Abdulhamid Sani Yakasai.
The report found out some irregularities by the hospital during the spot check it conducted which found the institution guilty of the aforementioned offence
and concluded that it should pay the said amount so as to serve as deterrent to others as spelt out by the provision of the Law that established the Agency section 53 sub-section 2 which stated that ‘’ Any person or organisation who connives with a healthcare practitioner or healthcare organisation to receive cash either for services rendered or not rendered shall on conviction be liable to be sentenced to a maximum period of twelve months imprisonment and/ or pay a fine of five hundred thousand Naira’’.
The staff involved have since been handed over to Hospital Management Board for disciplinary action.
