BY MOHAMMAD NURA YUSUF
Kano State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency Anti-Corruption Unit has imposed the payment of Five Hundred Thousand Naira on Gwarzo General Hospital over the fraudulent claims for secondary services fee that was not done by the facility.
The Executive Secretary 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 claims department of KSCHMA found out some irregularities in the claim for fee for service of the hospital during the spot check visit to the facility, the department forwarded the suspicious act to the anti-corruption unit of the Agency, after the investigations the unit found the hospital guilty of the offence.
The anti-corruption unit acted according to 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 were handed over to Hospital management board for disciplinary action.
