Classes & Events Maps & Directions Patient Information Pay Bill Online Site Map Registration Health Info. The suspect was last week remanded until 28 February. Doctors Hospital of Augusta 3651 Wheeler Rd Augusta, GA 30909 Telephone: (706) 651-3232. However, CIABOC had stated that the suspect did not have a licence to maintain a pharmacy. However, as it was reported, the counsel appearing on behalf of the suspect stated that his client was a pharmacist and had a pharmacy in his house as well. 425,970 had been taken into custody from the suspect’s house. The officials had told the courts that a stock of medicines and Rs.
22,000 to provide the ‘Carboplatin’ cancer drug, which had been received by the Apeksha Hospital as a donation.ĬIABOC officials further noted that the suspect had obtained the amount stating that there was a shortage of medicines at the Apeksha Hospital. 22,000 to provide a cancer drug.Īs it was reported, Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) officials informed the Magistrate that the suspect had obtained Rs. Last week, Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis ordered the remand of an employee attached to Apeksha Hospital Maharagama, who was arrested on charges of soliciting a bribe of Rs. We suspect that this might have gone out from that unit as the respective employee had worked in that unit itself, but we are investigating to see whether the drug is from the hospital or a donation,” he explained. The respective incident had taken place in one of our units where the drug is mixed with saline before it is given to patients. At sub stores also, the drug is registered. Then it is recorded here and we send it to the main stores for registration and from there it is sent to sub stores. “Usually when we receive a donation, it first comes to my office and I send a thank you note to the donors. He added that they would revisit their system so as to identify the loopholes. Jayathilake told The Sunday Morning that the internal investigations aimed at verifying whether the respective drugs that the employee had allegedly been dealing with were from the hospital’s State-supplied stock or from another source.Īccording to the current system in place, when a donation is received, it is recorded at three different places and therefore the chances for malpractices are minimal, according to Dr. The arrest comes in the backdrop of the Sri Lankan health system struggling to sustain services due to a serious shortage of pharmaceuticals and other medicine-related supplies.ĭr. 22,000 to sell a State-supplied prescription-based cancer medication. Aruna Jayathilake said the two inquiries had been launched last week after a hospital employee had been arrested in the act of seeking a bribe of Rs. Shajul Islam, who worked as a doctor at St Bart’s hospital, is currently suspended from practising medicine.
Two internal investigations have been launched by the Health Ministry and the Apeksha Cancer Hospital in Maharagama, following an incident where an employee of the hospital was intercepted while soliciting a bribe to sell cancer medication, The Sunday Morning learns.Īpeksha Hospital Director Dr.
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