blessedvisky:
Hmm op. You should have gotten some evidence now. Like the dentist full name, some pictures, etc.
Such is not allowed in the profession. Thanks

nuela100:

I don't have an evidence. U know these kind of things happen so fast that u don't have time to think

blessedvisky:
Name of the hospital would help. Location too is important

eyinjuege:
You should have asked for a receipt.

There are unscrupulous elements everywhere.

Always ask for a receipt or offer to pay with your card on a POS machine for any transaction you do.

blessedvisky:
You can go back to the hospital and complain of feeling pain from the extracted tooth. Then use d opportunity to find out the doctor's name. You can even ask for his number so you can contact him personally in case of further complications.
Nuela100: Good afternoon sir. The gum is feeling sore.
Doc: Drop 5k
Nuela: *recording doctors voice* 5K?? But I paid 7K yesterday, 2.5k first and I gave that nurse the rest later on your instructions. I've paid already and now there is still slight pain and you wanna collect money again??
Fear God now, na recession we dey.
Doc: OK sha bring #500. I will write the drugs you are to use.
Nuela100 : OK thanks Doc. Pls can i have your number in case anything comes up later?? Its stressful for me to come here every day. My boss saw how much pain I was in, that's why he permitted me to come.
WhatsApp number is preferable, so I can just chat you up.
Doc: Really? OK. Thanks.

You can use this format. But I don't know if you will have time sha. After getting the number, you can search him out on FB and true caller, then expose him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.com, Nairaland, Linda Ìkejì, etc.
Expose him and don't let your 7k go to waste.

Peace, out. Good luck

callmelanner:

Bros, you be yahoo boy?
See format

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 hospital 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 thglab 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 record, by the time they bring the blood there is also a record, when we try to reconcile the amount of blood sold with 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, 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 andafter they prescribed drugs for him they went to the free pharmacy, they didnt have anything on the list 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 ooo 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 impleemt 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.

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 hospital 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 thglab 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 record, by the time they bring the blood there is also a record, when we try to reconcile the amount of blood sold with 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, 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 andafter they prescribed drugs for him they went to the free pharmacy, they didnt have anything on the list 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 ooo 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 impleemt 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.

nuela100:

It's very bad, and I later got to find out I Paid more than I was supposed to. I really dunno what can be done to eradicate this menace that has eaten so deep into the society. Do you advice I go back to the hospital and make a case out of it

yetseyi:


I think next time you should just ensure you pay to the cashier and get your receipt . making a case out of it may or may not yield the desired outcome. You might be surprised that other staff will fault you for reporting the case.

nuela100:

It's very bad, and I later got to find out I Paid more than I was supposed to. I really dunno what can be done to eradicate this menace that has eaten so deep into the society. Do you advice I go back to the hospital and make a case out of it

yetseyi:


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yetseyi:
I had to take an elderly person to the general hospital recently, had some experiences(not necessarily scam-like in nature) but still terrible IMO and remembered this thread again. I did notice the payment system is now different which is better.

We still have a long way to go in naija when it comes to healthcare.

dfrost:



Have you ever been in a situation that that you almost got lynched for trying to do the right thing in Nigeria?

Gosh! We're something else in this country.

dfrost:


My dear for civil service and governmental agencies, it's all about a cabal or syndicate, which ever you like to call it. Sometimes when you want to do the right, you seem like the odd man out.

Have you ever been in a situation that that you almost got lynched for trying to do the right thing in Nigeria?

Gosh! We're something else in this country.

spawnx:

Yeah, like insisting on not paying the pump attendants extra money during scarcity and. ..

blessedvisky:
You can go back to the hospital and complain of feeling pain from the extracted tooth. Then use d opportunity to find out the doctor's name. You can even ask for his number so you can contact him personally in case of further complications.
Nuela100: Good afternoon sir. The gum is feeling sore.
Doc: Drop 5k
Nuela: *recording doctors voice* 5K?? But I paid 7K yesterday, 2.5k first and I gave that nurse the rest later on your instructions. I've paid already and now there is still slight pain and you wanna collect money again??
Fear God now, na recession we dey.
Doc: OK sha bring #500. I will write the drugs you are to use.
Nuela100 : OK thanks Doc. Pls can i have your number in case anything comes up later?? Its stressful for me to come here every day. My boss saw how much pain I was in, that's why he permitted me to come.
WhatsApp number is preferable, so I can just chat you up.
Doc: Really? OK. Thanks.

You can use this format. But I don't know if you will have time sha. After getting the number, you can search him out on FB and true caller, then expose him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.com, Nairaland, Linda Ìkejì, etc.
Expose him and don't let your 7k go to waste.

Peace, out. Good luck