Our Correspondent
The Kano State Hospitals Management Board has terminated one of its personnel who engaged in extorting money from a patient at Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital in the Kano metropolis.
The Executive Secretary of the Hospitals Management Board condemned what they met at the hospital unscheduled executive supervision in Muhammad Abdullah Wase Teaching Hospital.
In a statement signed by the public relations officer of the Board Samira Suleiman said Luck ran out on them when they were busted yesterday night by a patient relative who brought in a patient and happened to be one of the supervision team members. The officers were caught charging 21,500 which they paid 11,500 into the hospital account and 10,000 into a personal account. They then issue a receipt for 11,500 to the patient and no other evidence to show for the paid 10,000.
The team led by the Executive Secretary Hospitals Management Board, Director General of the Kano State Center of Diseases Control and Scale as well as the Executive Secretary of Kano State contributory Health Management Agency visited the facility as part of the team’s mandate but unfortunately, they met another hapless saga where the officers in charge of the Labour unit charged 21,500 for delivery
Dr Masur Nagoda further explained that after the effort of blocking all avenues of extorting money from patients that the CMD of the facility has tried to initiate, some have found another way to continue with the fraudulent act.
To this note, the Executive Secretary has approved the dismissal of the personal account holder which the other 10,000 is been paid while the matron and others are hereby suspended until all culprits are indicted or exonerated by the disciplinary action committee.
The Executive Secretary added Let this sound as a last warning to all “be it who, drastic measures will be applied. We want to sanitize the system in a way that every patient can walk into a facility and get the required services they need without any 2nd thought”.He called on patients and patient’s relatives to take note of all service numbers pasted in facilities to report any unwarranted incidents.
Similarly, the team also paid a visit to Waziri Shehu Gidado General Hospital Meeting a very filthy environment with empty oxygen cylinders as well as nonissuance of receipts to patients after getting services from the lab.
Dr Nagoda said they are planning on turning the payment system into digital payment where all payments would be centralized and a remitter would be issued to the patient.
“The executives and DG from the SMOH will not relent until we flush all the bad eggs, and liberate the system, in that an indigent patient and vulnerable can access care freely without intercession or fear of being cheated upon by undesirable elements and touts” he added.
