Types of Corruption in Health Care Provision

Types of Bribery and Corruption found in Health care

1. Payment of bribe for all emergency cases

2. Collection of bribe for free immunization of infants

3. Administration of fake/adulterated drugs to patients

4. Nurses and doctors steal drugs from the dispensary

5. Doctors and nurses refer patients to their private clinics and medicine stores

6. Payment of bribe to see a doctor and to receive prescription drugs

7. Direct embezzlement of funds meant for healthcare

8. The collection of health workers salaries and paying them into the private accounts to
yield interest

9. Faking sickness by civil servants in order to collect money from the government

10. Private doctors connive with patients to claim fictitious medical allowances

11. Doctors collect money from patients in order to grant them sick leave

12. Bribe must be paid before a corpse can be deposited or taken away from the general
hospitals and the University College Hospital’s mortuaries. Due to this reason, many
poor families usually abandon the corpses of their loved ones.

Source: Researcher’s Field Survey, 2004