nuela100:
I read your post and at your level of ignorance, All I could feel for you is pity. Please go look for people in the same intellectual level as you and stop quoting me

u are a trouble maker... always fermenting trouble when there is non... ur level of intellectual is nothing 2write home about, Tufiakwa

I will advise you forget about it and move on with your life as if nothing happen. This things happen everywhere including Almighty Lagos. I have similar experiences in Lagos too.

dfrost:


HMOs are the worse of all. Imagine paying 600 only per month for me? Meanwhile they pocket 97,000 from my company.

That is the biggest scam and don't be deceived, it's only 600 naira treatment u will get or nothing at all as a lot of these HMOS will owe clinics on end.

Secondly u are deceived that u get to visit many clinics, again this is a lie cos u can only go to one clinic to which your capitation has been paid.

The question is why not pay 50% of that 90 or 100k to the hospital and get treated like royalty instead of a leper in order to stop all these complaints? But that is not going to happen cause management and HMOS have sth going on.

In the end, productivity suffers and you keep suffering. If u don't have a union go form one. Many are beginning to see HMOS for what it is.

nuela100:

I think he did cos I paid more than I was supposed to.

Am a Dentist and I can categorically tell you that paying #7500 for a Filling and an Extraction is on the CHEAP side in today's Nigeria..

hmmmmm... Corruption, even where lives ought to be saved.

nuela100:

Either you are involved in such act or You are one of the highly ignorant Nigerians that think it's ok for people to deceive you under the guise of being professional. Be wise

Being a DENTIST Myself I can tell that the only PERSON being shortchanged HERE was the Hospital and Government,which by the way am not in support of,NOT you..not going to Hospital for TEN years left you IGNORANT of the basic TENEMENT of how a Doctor operates when it comes to the questions he was asking you as a PATIENT and believe it or not there are GOOD reasons for the questions..there were some under hand RUNS but YOU were not the VICTIM,to clear your mind on the real price for the procedures you can send somebody to inquire and I bet the prices are REAL,they just didn't want to pay in EVERYTHING to the Hospital..

You haven't seen anything. Naija Hospital been scamming since time immemorial

donbenie:
Being a DENTIST Myself I can tell that the only PERSON being shortchanged HERE was the Hospital and Government,which by the way am not in support of,NOT you..not going to Hospital for TEN years left you IGNORANT of the basic TENEMENT of how a Doctor operates when it comes to the questions he was asking you as a PATIENT and believe it or not there are GOOD reasons for the questions..there were some under hand RUNS but YOU were not the VICTIM,to clear your mind on the real price for the procedures you can send somebody to inquire and I bet the prices are REAL,they just didn't want to pay in EVERYTHING to the Hospital..

Being a patriotic Nigerian, I think am also a victim cos I shouldn't be used as an instrument to foster corruption. And I've already made inquiries, tooth extraction is actually 2500 in that particular hospital. So there's no way just filling could have been 4500.
If you doubt it, I didn't hide the name of the hospital. Find out on your own

Maaamaaa:
I just knew it has to be wuse general hospital...I served there and trust me, it is the norm ooooo...

If that's the norm there, then they had better privatize it. How can buhari fight corruption when it has eaten so deep into the country. This country needs help

am sure as hell that it is WUSE GENERAL HOSPITAL. that's how they operate there a lot of shady deals

nuela100:
I don't understand what ur saying

I was referring to the guy u replied

nuela100:

Just hope you are not a victim someday. That's all

Victim of what? You paid for the services rendered. If you were really concerned, you wouldn't have paid the money to the nurse. You are not even sure that what they did is illegal in any way. Did you talk to the management and they confirmed your suspicion? Because it is abnormal doesn't make it illegal. The person you will complain to may be the arrowhead of the plan. As long as money is involved, everyone in that department is involved.

The less you think about affairs in Nigeria, the more your sanity will be intact.

Like they pray,"God, give me the courage to accept the things I cannot change...."

yetseyi:
Sorry OP its not a new thing. I am of the opinion that unless there is a very strict punishment (e.g capital punishment) corruption can never be eradicated in Nigeria.

I have worked in an hospital system before as an IT student ,a general hospital in Lagos and its exactly the way it is. Our general hospitals will never provide good health care except these things are gotten rid of.

When I first resumed in the Lab, I observed that some of the staff do tests for people with government facilities and collect money from patients and pocket it. PT was 500naira then, some even buy the strips themselves for maybe 50naira I think run the tests for the patient give him a result on the lab paper and pocket the money. It was like that for all departments in that Lab, Hematology, microbiology, biochemistry and blood banking.

Blood bank was where the money was, one pint was like 3k then and these people will sell and pocket the cash without recording because if you record and the cash doesn't reflect in accounts its an issue but blood bank was where they were always caught once pre liminary tests are done on a donors sample(mostly husbands of pregnant ladies)and seems okay they will collect their blood donation and it used to be sent for further testing at NIMR(I guess) they would be brought back after like 2-3months. Some blood samples are not brought back probably for testing positive to some things.

Now the hospital is paying that organization for that service so there is a record, by the time they bring the blood there is also a record, when we try to reconcile the amount of blood sold in the Lab and the amount brought it doesn't match simply because some people have pocketed the money meanwhile the hospital has paid a lot of money and at the end of the day its a loss on their part. Wahala will now start , we all will now start pretending as if we don't know where the problem came from.

The only section there was nothing like that is HIV and its simply because it is free. We rotate working in each section as an IT student.

It even got worse at some point, it was an individual thing before it now became a general thing in that lab, all the money collected from runs will be gathered at the end of a business day and shared according to heirachy .

HOD takes the highest, the next ogas next, down to the technicians and they even use to give us IT students like 100-150 naira each for transport depending on "sales".(I now know better sha) Imagine someone making like 3k extra every day as at 2009.

Government buys equipment government buys reagents, we use the equipment and reagents pocket the money and we expect government to buy more reagents and also pay salary and some reagents for those automated analysers cost a lot. I am part of those that believe an hospital should be able to take care of its running expenses from the income it makes since government built ,equipped and is paying salaries but CORRUPTION won't allow these happen, as long as we are eating the money wewill not have good public health care .


Pharmacy nko, the day my cousin did wahala for them at the pharmacy, that was when Fashola said 60 and above , 12years and below they should be treated free and have free drugs but you see that free pharmacy they never have drugs, only paracetamol and etc. So my cousin who was a Lagos state teacher (they use to have free treatment then) brought her son below 12 andafter they prescribed drugs for him they went to the free pharmacy, they didnt have anything on the list not even vitamins. One would think my cousin was a perm sec with the way she packages her self lool , she started making some calls and speaking phony English as if she was calling to confirm if the consignment was not delivered to the pharmacy. She said the next thing the drugs began to surface ooo. Everything on the list was given to her son. Its that same hospital. Loool.

If government won't make profit from hospitals at least we should let the little they provide go round to us. Governments effort will always be futile as long as we are there to frustrate it.

If we don't implement the change begins with me campaign naija is not going anywhere. I mean no where.

General Hospitals and the civil service are the throne of corruption in Nigeria(after the Nigerian police) An average Nigerian wants to get something for a job he/she is being paid to do.

As much as Fashola tried to cleanse that system them people still found a way around it. I hope things are better now sha.I heared they put numbers to call within the maternal and child care centers if anyone asks anything from you.

See as your mouth dey run like tap.you are part of the reasons why we don't take IT students in d medical laboratory.

ghuzy01:

See as your mouth dey run like tap.you are part of the reasons why we don't take IT students in d medical laboratory.

You have just confirmed that what I narrated happens, by the way I thought its no longer the same now compared to that time. I guess I was wrong.

Are you part of those that shortchange the hospital management ? Repent oo

As if you guys are not happy when IT students come around simply because of the workload at a GH med lab.

You are to blame for paying without collecting receipt.please i will advice you not to go back to avoid story that touch.