Hospital issues same test results to 2,000 patients
TUOITRENEWS
As shown on these two
testing forms, the names of patients are different but the test results are
the same. Tuoi Tre
Authorities are investigating an unbelievable case in which a
State-owned hospital in
The investigation is underway following a letter of denunciation by Hoang Thi Nguyet, a health worker at the In the letter, Nguyet said that Liem assigned inexperienced or unprofessional staff to perform tests on patients. These staffs took blood samples but they later threw them away without any testing. They then printed numerous “test results” from some real tests that had been performed previously, and then gave such results to different patients, the whistleblower wrote in her letter.
As a consequence, thousands of patients have
received false test results and many cases are “very laughable”, she said.
For example, Nguyen Duy Bong, 68, suffered from hypertension but he was
issued a medical and biological test result that was identical in every
detail to that issued to a 41-year-old Dinh Thi Thu, who suffered a wound in
her forearm.
More notably, Nguyen Huu Nhung, an 82-year-old male patient received the same
medical test results as those of a young man, Nguyen Ba Bien, 22.
In another case, the same test result was given to both Bui Van Cuong, a
3-month baby, and a 92-year-old woman, Ngo Thi Dao.
In total, there are around 1,000 test results being issued randomly to about
2,000 people who arrived at the hospital for examination and treatment but
they have been deceived, Nguyet concluded.
Six health workers involved
On August 6 a working group from the Health Ministry led by Nguyen Trong
Khoa, deputy head of the ministry’s Medical Examination and Treatment
Department, and Nguyen Van Dung, vice director of the Hanoi Health
Department, arrived at the hospital to work on the accusation.
According to initial investigations, six of the ten health workers of the
Diagnostic Testing Department were involved in the scandal.
While police are investigating why they did this, these staffs admitted to
police that such patients are their acquaintances who only wanted to have the
tests to add them to their personal file or CV as required by their
employers.
Nguyen Thi Xuyen, a member of the department, admitted that she herself
issued such test results to those who only needed them to complete their
application for a job or for their schools.
Vuong Kim Thanh, head of the
However, Khoa rejected all such arguments and concluded that these health
workers have committed falsification. “Their acts are unacceptable. They have
issued the test result of one patient to three or four others.”
In talking with Tuoi Tre on
Tuesday, Nguyen Khac Hien, director of Hanoi Department of Health said that
police have seized all records and documents related to the scandal for
investigation.
The hospital on Wednesday, August 7, suspended Thanh and chief test
technician Phan Thi Oanh for investigation.
Embezzling insurance payouts?
Tuoi Tre reporters found that nearly all of
the patients to whom the false test results were issued have been covered by
health insurance.
Pham Luong Son, head of the Board for Implementation of Health Policies under
the Vietnam Social Insurance Agency, commented that the only purpose of such
acts was to appropriate the money to be paid by the Health Insurance Agency
for tests that were actually not carried out by the hospital.
“We have requested the Hanoi Insurance Agency to halt payments for cost of
tests to the hospital for the first and second quarters of this year, pending
a conclusion of the police,” Son said.
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Thứ Năm, 8 tháng 8, 2013
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