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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Delta Govt accuses doctors of pilfering By Emma Amaize Wednesday, September 29, 2004 WARRI — SOME medical doctors in the employment of the Delta State government are allegedly pilfering drugs and diverting  patients who come for medical attention at the state government-owned hospitals to their private clinics . The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa who alleged the sharp practices by the doctors said the matter was  discussed at the meeting of the State Executive Council (SEC) and that he was embarrassed by some of his colleagues over the  unprofessional act. “I have on more than one occasion sat in embarrassment at meetings of the SEC where some of my Commissioner colleagues  openly condemned some of the happenings in our hospitals”, he said while addressing officials of the State Hospital Management  Board. “What is more disheartening”, Dr. Okowa lamented, “is that the reports indicate that all the cadres of staff irrespective of status  seem to be involved in these unwholesome practices. “They come to work at their own chosen time, sometime very late, and leave when it suits them in disregard of the normal  working hours. Some even completely absent themselves from duty”, he said. According to the Commissioner, “recently, I received reports of some doctors who direct their patients to specific outside  laboratories and pharmacies even where such laboratory investigations and drugs can be performed or are available in the  hospitals.” Dr. Okowa also tongue-lashed pharmacists who come to work with their own drugs which they sell to patients, saying that they  not only sell their own drugs to patients instead of hospital drugs but they also steal government drugs. "For the laboratory scientists, he said that they intentionally make the laboratories “unfunctional” to create market for outside  laboratories for selfish interest."   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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