Quack doctors killing patients with wrong diagnosis – NHIA reveals

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• OPNINPA 8 years ago

  HOW DID SHE KNOW THE DOCTORS WHO DID THE WRONG DIAGNOSES AND PRISCRIPTIONS ARE NOT EXAMINATION QUALIFIED DOCTORS WHO HAVE NOT READ ANYTING SINCE GRADUATION AND HAVE GONE RUSTY? HOSPITALS MUST POLICE POOR PRACTICES ALL THE WAY ...
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  HOW DID SHE KNOW THE DOCTORS WHO DID THE WRONG DIAGNOSES AND PRISCRIPTIONS ARE NOT EXAMINATION QUALIFIED DOCTORS WHO HAVE NOT READ ANYTING SINCE GRADUATION AND HAVE GONE RUSTY? HOSPITALS MUST POLICE POOR PRACTICES ALL THE WAY FROM DOCTORS TO NURSES AND PHARMACISTS.

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• HONESTY 8 years ago

  Humans will never do the right thing so the need for honest and trained regulators to do sadden assessments on these Health Centres to ensure that standards are meant for the good of the public.

  Humans will never do the right thing so the need for honest and trained regulators to do sadden assessments on these Health Centres to ensure that standards are meant for the good of the public.

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• HONESTY 8 years ago

  I know, I don't intend to use the Lord's name in vain but how can peoples' health and public health be so admired by fellow trained humans meant to seek your wealth being and your trust.
  
  Someone please fix broken Ghana.

  I know, I don't intend to use the Lord's name in vain but how can peoples' health and public health be so admired by fellow trained humans meant to seek your wealth being and your trust.
  
  Someone please fix broken Ghana.

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• HONESTY 8 years ago

  .....so undermined...line3
  
  ...well being.. line 4.

  .....so undermined...line3
  
  ...well being.. line 4.

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• Sly 8 years ago

  Dr I blame you thieves and and arm robbery health insurance . You have printed your diagnosis and tarrif for health personnel to work within that diagnosis . If you make any diagnosis outside health insurance diagnosis they w ...
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  Dr I blame you thieves and and arm robbery health insurance . You have printed your diagnosis and tarrif for health personnel to work within that diagnosis . If you make any diagnosis outside health insurance diagnosis they will not pay . So the clinician after examination are also forced to write diagnosis within what health insurance has provided . Secondly you don't have qualify personnel vetting the claims I will challenge you to tell me how many doctors are vetting the claims in tamale CPC only polytechnic students . You have trained them on what to do . Stop disgracing medical and dental council and do your job. Pay the arrears of 13 months

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• HONESTY 8 years ago

  So money comes ahead of peoples' health to you.
  
  Why have you not made this an issue in the public and earlier but have conceived a wicked plan round the strict system to make money.
  
  YOU FOOLS HAVE LET THE MEDICAL PROFE ...
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  So money comes ahead of peoples' health to you.
  
  Why have you not made this an issue in the public and earlier but have conceived a wicked plan round the strict system to make money.
  
  YOU FOOLS HAVE LET THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE PUBLIC DOWN.
  
  Next time, you ask for more money for doctors, expect more fireworks from me.
  
  I will use this information over and over again until Ghana gets true change.

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• Orchid 8 years ago

  May I know who the "FOOLS" are, please?

  May I know who the "FOOLS" are, please?

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• HONESTY 8 years ago

  Have a guess.

  Have a guess.

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• Sly 8 years ago

  Health insurance want doctors to write vomiting and abdominal pain as diagnosis . Hmm you turn up to say there are quack doctors have you reviewed yours ?

  Health insurance want doctors to write vomiting and abdominal pain as diagnosis . Hmm you turn up to say there are quack doctors have you reviewed yours ?

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• Nova, USA 8 years ago

  Wild-wild west medicine is practiced in Ghana with no effective oversight and accountability by GMA. Most of the doctors are arrogant, ignorant and lacking basic medical skills, protocols and just occupied with making money. ...
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  Wild-wild west medicine is practiced in Ghana with no effective oversight and accountability by GMA. Most of the doctors are arrogant, ignorant and lacking basic medical skills, protocols and just occupied with making money. The training provided by the 2 medical schools is substandard. It is mayhem and the NPP government should prioritize and take control of fixing the broken medical system which is hurting Ghanaians. The Ghanaian medical system is DOA and SOS is in effect!!! Medicine is not about brick and mortar only but building and efficient and effective health care system.

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• Paul 8 years ago

  Yea, they are sub-standard that's why all across the world including the US you claim to be, Ghanaian doctors easily pass medical lisence exams and treat people like you. And who says there are only two medical schools in Gha ...
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  Yea, they are sub-standard that's why all across the world including the US you claim to be, Ghanaian doctors easily pass medical lisence exams and treat people like you. And who says there are only two medical schools in Ghana? Moronic ignoramus.

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• HONESTY 8 years ago

  Ghanaian doctors don't easily get licence in USA. The best ones do like from everywhere in the world.
  
  Nova may be, means two main ones,(his statement is very ambiguous if you can understand English) the rest are sub standa ...
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  Ghanaian doctors don't easily get licence in USA. The best ones do like from everywhere in the world.
  
  Nova may be, means two main ones,(his statement is very ambiguous if you can understand English) the rest are sub standard. If you don't like it, tough.
  
  Do yourselves a favour, IMPROVE AND STOP YOUR ARROGANCE AND MONEY OBSESSION-ISM.

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• A.E.S 8 years ago

  THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE GHANA NEEDS TO ADOPT SERIOUSLY THE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS CODING SYSTEM TO CHECK FOR CORRECT DIAGNOSIS FOR CLAIMS

  THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE GHANA NEEDS TO ADOPT SERIOUSLY THE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS CODING SYSTEM TO CHECK FOR CORRECT DIAGNOSIS FOR CLAIMS

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• Yakubu 8 years ago

  The quack doctors who put on a white coat and wears stethescope round their necks are presumably on the payroll of a hospital. How on earth can it be possible not to identify them as fake and get arrested??. Corruption makes ...
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  The quack doctors who put on a white coat and wears stethescope round their necks are presumably on the payroll of a hospital. How on earth can it be possible not to identify them as fake and get arrested??. Corruption makes it easy for such quacks to escape the net.

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• HMMN 8 years ago

  Complaint: Body pain
  Diagnosis: Bronchitis, malaria
  Eeeeeeiiiiiii....
  So what was the social history of this patient and his past medical and surgical history as well as current medication history including OTC's taken?
  W ...
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  Complaint: Body pain
  Diagnosis: Bronchitis, malaria
  Eeeeeeiiiiiii....
  So what was the social history of this patient and his past medical and surgical history as well as current medication history including OTC's taken?
  Was it a UGMS or SMS-KNUST trained General Physician?

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• Kofi Ho 8 years ago

  You write those things at the first visit. If they come again you don't write long stories .Do you know how patients bring another complaint when you have finished writing your history. That explains the bronchitis. When you ...
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  You write those things at the first visit. If they come again you don't write long stories .Do you know how patients bring another complaint when you have finished writing your history. That explains the bronchitis. When you have a doctor speaking like that she doesn't have much clinical experience. Check and see her CV. She has probable not had much interaction with patient care.

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• DENKYIRA 8 years ago

  OH, GIVE ME A BREAK. MEDICAL EDUCATION IN NOT FOR THOSE WHO FROM CHILDHOOD ARE BRILLIANT AND END UP IN MEDICAL SHOOL, BUT PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPOSED TO THE RIGHT TEACHING AND UNDERSTAND HOW TO WORK WITH MODERN EQUIPMENT AND DIAG ...
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  OH, GIVE ME A BREAK. MEDICAL EDUCATION IN NOT FOR THOSE WHO FROM CHILDHOOD ARE BRILLIANT AND END UP IN MEDICAL SHOOL, BUT PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPOSED TO THE RIGHT TEACHING AND UNDERSTAND HOW TO WORK WITH MODERN EQUIPMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS. OUR GHANA DOCTORS HAVE NO CLUES. THEY STILL OPENING PEOPLE UP TO SEE WHAT COULD BE WRONG.

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• yaw ADJEI 8 years ago

  Moh should hAve a strong,well resourced,active monitoring and evaluation secetariat to work on such issues

  Moh should hAve a strong,well resourced,active monitoring and evaluation secetariat to work on such issues

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• Sam K 8 years ago

  NHIA has spent and continue to spend so much on IT. Yet, after 13 years, your processes continue to be manual. No wonder some senior management officials there have amassed so much wealth.
  You have put gadgets at NHIS accr ...
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  NHIA has spent and continue to spend so much on IT. Yet, after 13 years, your processes continue to be manual. No wonder some senior management officials there have amassed so much wealth.
  You have put gadgets at NHIS accredited facilities to confirm membership but not to ensure diagnoses made match the medicines as the Director is pointing out here. People who have mismanaged NHIA over the years belong to prison. But they are still at NHIA driving their expensive cars bought with stolen money from NHIA.

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• Anthony 8 years ago

  If you are a woman at NHIA, you have to sleep with a senior management official before you are promoted or given scholarship to study abroad. And tgere are directors who will sleep with a womsn before she given a job at NHIA ...
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  If you are a woman at NHIA, you have to sleep with a senior management official before you are promoted or given scholarship to study abroad. And tgere are directors who will sleep with a womsn before she given a job at NHIA. And these corrupt and morally bankrupt NDC appointed people are still at NHIA.

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• Charley 8 years ago

  Go to hell!

  Go to hell!

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• KOO THE BOY 8 years ago

  Stop the talking and pay the 13months arrears..You are collapsing health facilities gradually..

  Stop the talking and pay the 13months arrears..You are collapsing health facilities gradually..

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• James 8 years ago

  She has lecture to give and hence the statements. Any practicing clinician knows that these 'mistakes' of writing fast can happen in a busy polyclinic in Ghana. It rather exposes her lack of contact with patients who can retu ...
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  She has lecture to give and hence the statements. Any practicing clinician knows that these 'mistakes' of writing fast can happen in a busy polyclinic in Ghana. It rather exposes her lack of contact with patients who can return to tell you a symptom she didn't mention. Doctor I'm also coughing. Where do put that except in the diagnosis and appear odd but she/he is treated properly.

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• Yamfo 8 years ago

  Thank you Dr Lydia Diane Selby. It is very true Doctors are killing patients in Ghanaian hospitals. There are Doctors..... on the payroll of drug manufacturers and their representatives in Ghana, the more they write prescript ...
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  Thank you Dr Lydia Diane Selby. It is very true Doctors are killing patients in Ghanaian hospitals. There are Doctors..... on the payroll of drug manufacturers and their representatives in Ghana, the more they write prescriptions for a particular drug the more money they make on weekly basis. Damn the side effects...and the cross- interactions, whether the diagnosis merits that medication or not they will write it for every single patient that enters the consulting room. I know what I am talking about I have seen it, they brag about how much money they make a day, by writing those bogus prescriptions and knowingly harming people for kick-backs from drug companies. The Government(BNI) must investigate those Medical Professionals Dr. Lydia Selby is talking about. I bet you, you will uncovered an iceberg of scandals these doctors are sitting on. There are Doctors in hospitals who prescribe Typhoid medications for every patient ...even if you are there just to say "good morning doctor". Whatever ailment you complain about, that particular drug must be part of your prescription and you have to spend money though you don't need them so the doctor will get paid. This is the cue it is up to the Dr a Selby to tell we Ghanaian everthing she knows.

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• kk 8 years ago

  THERE MUST BE A DIRECTIVES COMING FROM THE MINISTER OF HEALTH FOR THE POLICE AND GENERAL PUBLIC TO ACT ON IT. THAT I STRONGLY BELIEVE WOULD HELP PLUS MEDIA EXPOSURE OF THE PROBLEM TO ALL IN THE RURAL AREAS THEREFORE VIA RADIO ...
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  THERE MUST BE A DIRECTIVES COMING FROM THE MINISTER OF HEALTH FOR THE POLICE AND GENERAL PUBLIC TO ACT ON IT. THAT I STRONGLY BELIEVE WOULD HELP PLUS MEDIA EXPOSURE OF THE PROBLEM TO ALL IN THE RURAL AREAS THEREFORE VIA RADIO AND THROUGH LOCAL LEADERS.

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• Mary Amuah 8 years ago

  If I understood the proceedings put up here, these institutions are NHIS accredited institutions. Therefore this also tells me the processes of NHIS accreditation of our health institutions leaves a lot to be desired. It woul ...
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  If I understood the proceedings put up here, these institutions are NHIS accredited institutions. Therefore this also tells me the processes of NHIS accreditation of our health institutions leaves a lot to be desired. It would mean the NHIS also was not rigorous with their demands on standards for accreditation. Does that mean once a hospital says we have so and so practitioners, that's it? That's the only way I see that would make NHIA accredit such institutions. Perhaps the other route left for dealing with this would be the financial loss whipping for every irrational diagnosis and prescription. I stand to be corrected though.

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