THE Ministry of Health must not rest until it gets to the heart of the corruption at the nation’s Blood Bank operating from the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka.That some members of staff at the Blood Bank sell blood to innocent people makes sad reading for it defeats the whole purpose for which hospitals operate.Moreover, it brings to the fore the extent to which corruption has entrenched itself in the country when even for things which are supposed to be free, one has to part with money to be served.It is shocking that some officials at the Blood Bank officials are forcing patients to pay up to K300 to access transfusion. This is a service that is supposed to be free.It is beyond one’s imagination that a worker at a health institution can take advantage of someone at their weakest point and extort money from them to access a service.One man, whose wife was in […]
BLOODY CORRUPTION
