Medical Kalabule: Doctors preying on helpless patients in Ghanaian hospitals
About this episode
The episode investigates how some doctors in Ghana are exploiting patients in need of urgent surgeries for profit.
Some doctors in Ghana entrusted with saving lives have instead been preying on patients in desperate need of urgent, life-saving surgeries. In a health system already stretched by staff shortages, limited infrastructure and chronic equipment gaps, some surgeons have found a way to turn crisis into profit. The Fourth Estate’s investigation uncovers how patients at Ridge Hospital were allegedly forced to pay inflated prices for surgical supplies, along with so-called “service fees” that did not...
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