Bondo Sub-County Referral Hospital Concerned Kenyans have lifted the lid on widespread corruption at the Bondo Sub-county Hospital where a cabal of greedy medics is allegedly holding its financial channels hostage.
The corrupt hospital staff are accused of running a well-orchestrated scheme to ensure that payments made at the facility are not logged in the government system as stipulated by the law.
They repeatedly force patients to pay for services in cash and have devised cunning ways of retaining the manual receipt that indicates the cost of treatment.
Those that insist on paying via mobile money options like M-Pesa are asked to withdraw the funds at a nearby shop.
Aside from this blatant theft, the hospital is also reported to be out of drugs.
They direct patients to buy their prescriptions from a private chemist outside the facility.
The situation is said to be prevalent in public hospitals across the country.
A source who spoke to us on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, had to say about the sad state of affairs. “Hi, Nyakundi. Good Morning. Something is going on in some public hospitals. I was in Bondo sub-county hospital yesterday. They diagnosed me with malaria. Funny thing, no payment was entered into their systems. Sh600 bob consultation was paid, and they wrote a manual receipt. Nikatumwa, rudi room number 1 upatie daktari hii karatasi. After kupatia daktari, akaniambia niende nipimwe damu for malaria/typhoid. After kurudi, akaniambia hiyo karatasi nimempa imepotea lakini ananikumbuka. She prescribed medications, then akasema hawana hizo madaw hapo, nitaenda chemist ninunue huko nje, and I should make sure hiyo karatasi iko na results za blood test and prescribed medicines, nisiwachie mtu wa chemist. I make sure nimeenda nayo nyumbani. Then akaitisha Sh600 as treatment fees. I gave out 1 thousand note, hakuwa na change. Akaita student fulani wa KMTC aende na mimi huko nje kutafuta change then arudi na mia sita ampatie chai yake. Huko nje, my brother mwenye alikua amenileta ndio akaniambia, they are doing something very wrong. There is no record showing I was in that hospital. Hizo pesa nimelipa haizitafikia government, hizo ni za hao madaktari directly. It's corruption happening before our eyes. Not to mention, niliingia kwa daktari akiwa na another female patient, who was also told ako na typhoid, hawana madawa, aende akanunue huko nje. She wanted to pay via M-Pesa, just like I initially wanted. Unaambiwa, enda kwa mpesa hapo nje and withdraw, ukuje ulipe cash. Kindly expose this and keep my identity anonymous," the source lamented.