#i do nt wnt to judge the doctor in this story which I hv copied sumwhr!these are just among the usual hard times of the Muntharika brothers!soon crime wont even b a crime anymor its being too tolerated nt surprised though# thts wat some dick heads voted for!! Some Blantyre-based women have said a clinician at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Charles Mapiri, has been demanding money from expectant women by instilling fear in them promising to give them extra care in return. The women who have experienced this said when a woman goes for antenatal for the first time, they are categorised whether they are high risk or normal pregnancy. “In my case, I delivered my first child through Cesarean Section. I was automatically categorised high risk and needed frequent monitoring,’ said one woman (name withheld), a Chileka resident. She added: “When I met Mapiri in April, he told me that I could either die or both of us would die and we needed special care which required us to pay extra money.” She said Mapiri told her that she was supposed to pay K5, 000 for each visit and pay K35, 000 for a C-Section delivery. “He said if I let other people to treat me, I may lose my life and that of the baby. He said this would happen because others are not competent enough to handle high risk pregnancies,” she recalled. Another victim said Mapiri told her some months ago that he would deliver her normally through C-Section but she needed to pay K75, 000. “I was told that the theatre is usually busy for C- Sections and other people were not competent enough to handle my case but him,” she said. On the day of delivery (last week), she delivered through C-Section but it was a different doctor who operated on her. This doctor said the money should be given to him because he had already agreed with Mapiri who was not around at this time. A day later, her husband called the doctor, who first suggested that they meet at Ginnery Corner, then changed statements after the husband questioned why they should meet there. “He gave the doctor K40, 000 in a certain room situated at the dental department,” she said. When the husband went back to Ward 1A, he found a K53, 000 hospital bill which included theatre charges (which he assumed he had already paid for). He asked around and was told that there is a tendency by some doctors and clinicians who take advantage of expectant women’s situations to instill fear in them and get money from them. The husband confronted the doctor he had given money to and after threatening to report him, he gave the K40, 000 back. My take: Malawi is getting rotten every day. This tendency by public servants is everywhere. I have no hope it will stop. Only a radical approach to the fight against corruption will bring any change.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:24:36 +0000
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