IT has been learnt that many doctors in the country tend to give patients medications of high price to benefit hospitals or health institutions they work with.
Service Improvement Officer from an NGO PrarmAccess International, Mr Johnson Yakoyana made the revelation while handing over drugs to Mango Health Center and Marangu Hospital, both in Kilimanjaro region.
He said they have decided to provide pain killers, blood pressure and diabetes medicines because of their high price and demand especially to many people who are elders, who cannot afford their costs. He said that many health experts have been doing to earn huge profits instead of providing appropriate services to all patients ethically.
“Many doctors tend to benefit their employers, they issue prescription to patients with high price drugs, sometimes even when not necessary to the respective patients, resulting in the patients being given expensive drugs, while it would be fair for them to be given the low cost ones,” “said Mr Yakoyana Health Plan Project Manager for the NGO, Mr Prosper Msuya said that many doctors are giving patients many drugs at a time, a situation that could endanger their health, and hence called for doctors to stick to their ethics to serve the public.
Mr Msuya urged owners of hospitals to educate doctors to stop this poor behavior immediately, because the only secret to get profit is to provide a good service to a customer.
“If a patient is supposed to be given a medication like a pain killer, he/ she has to get a normal dose according to his/her conditions, but it is not advisable to prescribe to him/her the costly ones or one that should be used by a patient with a chronic ailment, but at times you can even give him/her some pieces of advice as option if his/her condition does not necessarily require medication,” said Mr Msuya.
Service Improvement Officer from an NGO PrarmAccess International, Mr Johnson Yakoyana made the revelation while handing over drugs to Mango Health Center and Marangu Hospital, both in Kilimanjaro region.
He said they have decided to provide pain killers, blood pressure and diabetes medicines because of their high price and demand especially to many people who are elders, who cannot afford their costs. He said that many health experts have been doing to earn huge profits instead of providing appropriate services to all patients ethically.
“Many doctors tend to benefit their employers, they issue prescription to patients with high price drugs, sometimes even when not necessary to the respective patients, resulting in the patients being given expensive drugs, while it would be fair for them to be given the low cost ones,” “said Mr Yakoyana Health Plan Project Manager for the NGO, Mr Prosper Msuya said that many doctors are giving patients many drugs at a time, a situation that could endanger their health, and hence called for doctors to stick to their ethics to serve the public.
Mr Msuya urged owners of hospitals to educate doctors to stop this poor behavior immediately, because the only secret to get profit is to provide a good service to a customer.
“If a patient is supposed to be given a medication like a pain killer, he/ she has to get a normal dose according to his/her conditions, but it is not advisable to prescribe to him/her the costly ones or one that should be used by a patient with a chronic ailment, but at times you can even give him/her some pieces of advice as option if his/her condition does not necessarily require medication,” said Mr Msuya.
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