Uganda’s wellness government minister disguised herself equally a patient as well as caught ii medical workers demanding a bribe for gratuitous authorities services.
Health Minister Sarah Opendi said she wore a confront veil as well as travelled to a infirmary inwards the uppercase Kampala on a boda-boda (motorbike taxi) to disguise her identity.
“I received many complaints that the staff at the infirmary was extorting coin from patients,” Opendi said.
She went through normal patient procedures for around laboratory tests for which she was told to pay 150,000 shillings (35 euros, $40) “yet these are all supposed to hold out free”.
“I told him I didn’t accept the coin only he insisted.”
She was as well as thence sent to fetch the testing strips from a nursing assistant, who asked for coin equally well.
“I paid her as well as thereafter I called inwards the constabulary who arrested the ii staff,” she said of Friday’s incident at the Chinese-built Naguru hospital.
Deputy infirmary manager Dr Stephen Kyebambe expressed gratitude to Opendi for arresting the staff members.
“The government minister must hold out congratulated for unearthing this dissonance of extortionists at our hospital. We are grateful. Otherwise patients endure inwards the hands of these roughshod staff,” he said.
The utilisation of extorting patients is mutual inwards Ugandan authorities hospitals, where medical workers earn equally piddling equally $70 per month.
AFP