IHK drains sh130 millions knowing the patient was dead

Douglous Kasule a resident of Katwe in Kampala is in tears. He says the International Hospital Kampala (IHK), drained from their family over sh130m, yet the medics knew his brother would not survive.

Kasule wrote this message to show his frustration on the fraud system in the medical system of the International Hospital Kampala (IHK).

He says the last three weeks they took their brother Hakiram Ssebyala to this hospital; he was having Pancreatic cancer (Obuyinjja) in the appendix;  he had been battling with this cancer and having abdominal pain and back pain.

As soon they reached at the hospital they were told he had to go under an operation, they obliged.

Surprisingly, after three days they told them that he had gone into coma and they needed to put him on life supporting machine to save his life. This one also, Kasule reveals, the family obliged and signed a medical form.

Then they were told to pay sh12 millions for each day. Kasule says the hospital has been draining them for about two weeks,  and have paid so far sh130 millions to save their brother.

“We have been collecting this money from friends and well-wishers who know our family because we are from the Ghettos of Katwe , Musoke zone. But unfortunately when they realized that we cannot afford no more money, they asked for the Land and house tittle,” Kasule reveals.

Kasule told the press that when the family asked for the assurance of his life because their father was willing to do anything to save his son’s life,  that is when they were told that their  patient was dead !

Bad enough, they want another sh60 millions to give them the dead body. They talked to the hospital and managed to raise 20 million from their WhatsApp group members.

They got the body out of the hospital. But when they asked for files and scan reports and how the operation was done;  the hospital had nothing to provide. They only said that they can’t see his file.  The family is frustrated; wondering  how a hospital that asks millions of shillings could be negligent to that extent!

“Everything has gone wrong in Uganda. We need an audit on that hospital most of their operations go wrong and they just serve Ugandans with terrible medical bills which are abnormal. So Ugandans have to watch out on that hospital the moment they realize that you can afford medical bills you are gone,” Kasule laments.