Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Wafula has maintained that she will do all she can to restore sanity in the health sector.
Speaking during a high-level meeting on health financing on Tuesday, the health CS exposed how some small hospitals are deceiving the National Health Insurance Fund. Wafula shared that the medical claims from some of these hospitals demonstrate that they perform a higher number of surgeries than the country’s referral hospitals.
“As a country, people must be held accountable. We cannot have people raising resources for health and we have others misusing the resources. There is no way that some small facilities somewhere receive the highest claims in this country from NHIF; that this facility does more surgeries than KNH, KUTRRH, MTRH and some of the big FBO facilities we have around. It is not possible, it is theft and we shall call them out for that.” she said.
The CS called for the Kenya Healthcare Federation CEO Tim Theuri to collaborate in the anti-fraud campaign, warning that she would take action against any private sector entity caught engaging in fraudulent activities. On Monday, Theuri voiced his support for the measures taken by the CS, affirming that they would not defend any provider found guilty. The CS on Monday suspended eight NHIF branch managers in the areas where fraud was alleged and demanded all NHIF staff undertake a lifestyle audit.
The CS declared that the EACC’s exercise would see the staff in question explain their source of income that will be expected to be commensurate with their pay. She warned that any discrepancies that arise would be subject to further investigations and will lead to legal action.
Some of you readers may be…
Some of you readers may be familiar with the names, Lamane Diack,and Papa Massata Diack-fathers and son.Both were high ranking officials in the IAAF,the precursor of the now World Athletics.Even if you are not a sports fun,Iam sure you have heard that Russia was banned from international participations in atheletic games for doping.Massata Diack the son, was jailed for his participation in taking bribes.Why do I mention this?
Investigative reports have revealed that there was ample evidence that shows massive corruption in the 2016 Olympics boxing.Referees,and judges were found to have manipulated bouts in exchange for money or enjoyed some quid-pro-quo arrangements.As a result, the USA sports authority has decided to scrap boxing events in the 2028 Olympic games that will be held in California.I trust you Mwakilishians are smart enough to see parallels between what I have narrated,and the story above…
Yes, in the long run, corruption hurts every body.And those who bear the brunt of the “losses” are ,mostly the innocent.Let’s not just give lip serve to corruption.If we could only act half as much as we talk about it, we would be in damn good shape.
What are you waiting for…
What are you waiting for. Call out those hospitals now and let’s shut them down pending prosecution of those involved!
We are tired of corruption. We want to see people being held accountable for their actions! Where’s the punishment????
A secret service style DCI…
A secret service style DCI would nab these, recover the money and if judiciary was in a hurry would give em enough time chewing githeri and uncut collard greens..