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How fake patients ended up bleeding healthcare in northern Colombia
written by Adriaan Alsema January 24, 2018
Health contractors in northern Colombia embezzled tens of millions of dollars by funding expensive medicine for ghost patients, the country’s inspector general said Tuesday.
The country’s Inspector General found that 800 fake patients were receiving compensation for expensive AIDS medicine.
A similar scandal involving heart medicine unfolded in the same province just months ago.
The two scandals cost health intermediaries more than $30 million, Inspector General Fernando Carrillo said.
More:
http://colombiareports.com/fake-patients-ended-bleeding-healthcare-northern-colombia/
