By Chris Mbunwe
Gendarmes have interrogated five finance clerks of Mbingo Baptist Hospital in Bello, Boyo Division in the Northwest, accused of swindling some FCFA 8 million.
The suspects include Andalene Bilem Nformuneh, Mary Wainge Ndum, Walters Ngwe Mbabit, Derrick Nso Achoge and Terence Diom Chia.According to a local weekly tabloid, Boyo Voice, Mbingo Baptist Hospital and the Cameroon Baptist Convention, CBC, Health Board discovered that the suspects had systematically been swindling the hospital's money through a fake billing system.
It took the Belo gendarmes several weeks to interrogate the finance clerks involved in the racket.Recently, the gendarmes completed their investigations and the case files have been forwarded to Boyo State Counsel for judicial action.
It is alleged that the finance clerks falsified patients' bills indicating that the patients paid less than they actually paid, and thus, they shared the booty they made.Talking to The Post on June 27 by phone, the Director of CBC Health Services, Professor Pius Tih Muffih, confirmed that the five finance clerks are answering charges of embezzlement of FCFA 7 to 8 million.
"They have to cough out the said sum and pay back to the hospital because this is the institution's money which we need to buy drugs and run the hospital. All we want is for them to bring back this money from where they kept it," Professor Tih said.
He condemned the attitude of such staff who are out to rob the CBC of money meant to help health care delivery services to poor patients."Though they have been sacked, we will pursue and recover the money they stole," he insisted.
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