The head of State House Anti-Corruption Unit, Col Edith Nakalema has said that the government might be forced to intervene and stop private health facilities from charging Covid-19 patients exorbitantly.
Nakalema was responding to the public outcry on social media platforms over what some described as “extortion and robbery” by some private health facilities regarding the cost of treating Covid-19 during this period.
In a tweet yesterday, Nakalema said that they shall coordinate with police and the Ministry of Health to question these exorbitant prices.
Nakalema said that fighting corruption requires collective efforts adding that together they can make a difference.
Public outrage erupted following the post on Twitter by a journalist Simon Kaggwa Njala regarding the cost of transporting patients using ambulances at Nkozi Hospital.
According to the charge sheet seen by Endigyito radio, the hospital charges an ambulance for an outside patient at Sh200,000, referral from the hospital at Shs 700,000, a patient deposit Shs1 million and daily payments oxygen at Shs100,000.
