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My Scam Experience At The Hospital by nuela100(f): 4:13am On Sep 23, 2016 |
I was having toothache to the point where I could no longer bear it. So I asked my friend to escort me to one of the govt hospitals here in Abuja, this happened yesterday . Before I continue, lemme make it clear that the last time I went to a hospital was more than 10 years ago (yea, I'm blessed like that ) , so I don't have the exact details of how they operate. On getting to the hospital, I was asked to get a card, which I did. We then headed to the dental clinic to do the card registration. I was called upon by the dentist and he started asking me questions abt my case. I have to mention that he also asked irrelevant questions like am I married? What is my relationship with my friend I came with? Where I live?, how I came from such a far place to the hospital, which I later realized was just his gimmick to know if he could scam me . After that, he told me I needed to extract one tooth and fill the other close to it. He then said everything was 7k. He asked me to go pay the money to the hospital cashier but I was surprised wen he said I should only pay 2500 for the extraction first. When I hesitated and wondered why I shouldn't pay all the money at once, he gave a flimsy excuse of how I should pay it step by step incase if he doesn't finish the procedure. So I was surprised when he extracted the tooth and filled the other tooth in less than an hour, without waiting for me to make the payments in steps like he said. It was when one of the nurses called me inside their office there and asked me to pay the remaining money that I sensed sth was not right. I told them I was coming, went outside and told my friend what happened and he said I should give them the money anyways , that maybe that's their system there and I might end up getting embarrassed if I want to take up the case. I gave them the money and left the hospital. On getting back home, I couldn't stop wondering if there was sth I could have really done abt it, hence my decision to post it here. I don't feel it's right for these people to collect money from vulnerable patients and still receive their salary at the end of the month. Has corruption really gotten to this extent where scammers now wear a lab coat? 25 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by blessedvisky(m): 4:35am On Sep 23, 2016 |
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 Lalasticlala seun 11 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by nuela100(f): 4:53am On Sep 23, 2016 |
blessedvisky:I don't have an evidence. U know these kind of things happen so fast that u don't have time to think 8 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by blessedvisky(m): 5:15am On Sep 23, 2016 |
nuela100:Name of the hospital would help. Location too is important 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by nuela100(f): 5:17am On Sep 23, 2016 |
blessedvisky:Wuse district hospital, Abuja 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by eyinjuege: 5:22am On Sep 23, 2016 |
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. 15 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by nuela100(f): 5:27am On Sep 23, 2016 |
eyinjuege:seriously, I dunno how I forgot to ask for a receipt. That was why I added that I've not been to a hospital for many years, I'm not used to how they operate. It was after I went home that it dawned on me what really happened to me. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by blessedvisky(m): 5:36am On Sep 23, 2016 |
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 87 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by callmelanner(m): 5:43am On Sep 23, 2016 |
blessedvisky:Bros, you be yahoo boy? See format 78 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by nuela100(f): 5:51am On Sep 23, 2016 |
@blessedvisky Lol. I really doubt if I could go through all that stress but I hope someone can learn from my experience. However, I wish they could be warned by someone who has the authority to desist from such evil act. 1 Like |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by blessedvisky(m): 6:01am On Sep 23, 2016 |
callmelanner:Ha, yahoo boy ké.?? . I'm an unofficial investigator . I just hope that doc ain't reading this sha 2 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by Nobody: 7:41am On Sep 23, 2016 |
civil service is now a den of corruption.. Imagine when I wanted to circumcise my son, the midwife there said she can do home service, I insisted on doing it at the hospital incase of any issue. When I got to the hospital, imagine, the same nurse decided to collect cash, instead of me paying to the cashier.. I didn't accept her proposal, because of any eventuality, I would have proves it's done there.. She started acting funny, I later know the cost is 1000,yet she wants me to pay 3000. She did it grudgingly. I care-less of her attitude.. 15 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by mostyg(m): 8:29pm On Sep 23, 2016 |
Corruption is embedded in almost all Nigerians. These are same of people that would be blaming the Government for bad governance whereas in their own little corner they are worse. If Nigeria must change, individual must change his/her attitude. #changebeginswithme 8 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by Greenbullet(m): 3:53am On Sep 24, 2016 |
Nigerians have corruption in their DNA. 3 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by pragmatistm(m): 4:02am On Sep 24, 2016 |
Madam, always ask for receipt of any payment. How can you pay to a nurse in a government hospital? What is the job of the cashier? Haba! 2 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by Artistree: 7:22am On Sep 24, 2016 |
This reminds me of many years ago when I got readmitted into the university after my first program. The class rep announced that we'd be paying #100 each for CLASS REGISTRATION. I'd never heard of anything like that and wasted no time demanding for the source of the info. In a class of more than 1200, #100 will amount to no less than #120,000, payable to who? I politely told the class rep that I would want to hear from whoever sent him on such a mission and until then I won't pay a dime...Suffice it to say that other students paid up quickly. Shortly thereafter, my HOD lost his mum and another announcement was made that we would be paying a compulsory #100 to buy cow for him. I just laughed and told the class rep that the HOD can't compel us to buy him anything...again I didn't pay. When the response was low, he (HOD) came to the class one morning and gave us an assignment, asking us to submit it with the #100 tucked in between the foolscap sheet, else we'd fail. Did I write the test? No! Did I fail? NOOO! All manner of clearance came up each semester with a #500 collection from different course lecturers and none did I do cos I knew their target was the money, given that my class was a large one and a potential extortion field. Funny enough, despite the threats of "you won't see your result if you don't do it" I would ALWAYS see mine as soon as they are pasted and never had an absent case or carry over till I graduated. I went to a Local Government Council secretariat to register my marriage last year, I was asked to pay #7,500 into the council's account,then when coming with the teller, I would bring two bottles of CHAMDOR wine and a bottle of groundnut, when I asked "for who, council chairman? the woman at the desk told me that it is the norm. I left, went to another LGC close by, paid #3,500, got my receipt and went home. Was my marriage registered? OFCOURSE!!! Corruption is in every sector and if you insist on doing the right thing, you'd be surprised how easy it is. 119 Likes 12 Shares |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by yetseyi(f): 7:56am On Sep 24, 2016 |
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. 98 Likes 11 Shares |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by Tochex101(m): 8:43am On Sep 24, 2016 |
yetseyi:Thank you for this piece. 4 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by nuela100(f): 10:56am On Sep 24, 2016 |
yetseyi: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 |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by yetseyi(f): 1:31pm On Sep 24, 2016 |
nuela100: 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. 1 Like |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by nuela100(f): 2:59pm On Sep 24, 2016 |
yetseyi:tnx a lot for ur input |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by pragmatistm(m): 5:54am On Sep 25, 2016 |
nuela100:As you want things to be better in the future, I will advise that you go back there and ask for servicom. Then report what happened to them. 2 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by infogenius(m): 4:21pm On Sep 25, 2016 |
This discussion should hit
the front page.
It is also a little way of exposing
corrupt people at the same time
fighting corruption.
Over to you mods 1 Like |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by yetseyi(f): 11:19am On Oct 21, 2016 |
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. |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by dfrost: 12:00pm On Oct 21, 2016 |
yetseyi: 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. 2 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by dfrost: 12:02pm On Oct 21, 2016 |
yetseyi: HMOs are the worse of all. Imagine paying 600 only per month for me? Meanwhile they pocket 97,000 from my company. |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by yetseyi(f): 12:09pm On Oct 21, 2016 |
dfrost: Loool, I know that feeling |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by dayleke: 3:57pm On Oct 23, 2016 |
Naija!!!!!! Which way ooo!!!!!!! |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by spawnx: 12:11am On Oct 24, 2016 |
dfrost:Yeah, like insisting on not paying the pump attendants extra money during scarcity and. .. 1 Like |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by dfrost: 12:37am On Oct 24, 2016 |
spawnx: Bingo mate. Very annoying. 2 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by emmabest2000(m): 5:28pm On Oct 24, 2016 |
Shine your eyes very well whenever money is involved .... 2 Likes |
Re: My Scam Experience At The Hospital by OkoYibo: 5:29pm On Oct 24, 2016 |
blessedvisky: 1 Like
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