Kisumu’s Referral hospital probes shs 100 bribery claim to a medic.
By Dickson Odhiambo
July 29, 2019.
Kisumu’s Referral
hospital probes shs 100 bribery claim to a medic.
The Management of the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and
Referral Hospital in Kisumu is probing an incident in which a medic was
allegedly bribed to attend to a patient recently at the facility.
The Hospital Chief Executive Officer Dr. Peter Okoth said
such an incident is very embarrassing and must be condemned at all cost.
Dr. Okoth was reacting to a story exposed by a local
Television Station where a patient was caught on camera bribing a medic with
shs 100 so as to attend to his sickness.
Addressing the press at his office at the facility today, Dr.
Okoth said they treat the issue as a form of corruption.
“We treat this issue as a form of corruption and not a petty
one thus we condemn it in the strongest terms possible,” Dr. Okoth said.
He says the way doctors see patients is very much different
from other sectors like commodity markets because it is done in confidentiality
and privacy, adding that the Doctors and clinicians do this in closed rooms.
He said the occurrence is also an experience to the health
facility that has started to deploy some of their mystery clients.
“We want to know whether he was enticed and it is very much
important to understand under what circumstance this happened,” Dr. Okoth
added.
He said there is always a perspective of the consumer and
the provider in the issue of fighting for corruption, adding that the biggest
question is to ask is whether the system in the facility provides a ground for
the people working there to ask for bribes.
“We have identified the character and investigating the
matter further with a view of taking disciplinary action because this is the
much we can do,” Dr. Okoth further said.
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