MediHeal hospital boasts of being the ‘leading and largest healthcare service provider in East Africa with high focus on quality, cost-effective & world-class healthcare, and respect for human beings’.
However, beneath the veneer of professionalism, lies an uncomfortable truth. The hospital, managed by Indians is underpaying staff and also engaging in conmanship during these strange Covid-19 times.
Kenyans on Twitter (KoT) however, engaged in a different but similar theme altogether as they exposed the case of non-payment of nurses.
An anonymous staff at MediHeal wrote to Blogger Robert Alai about the state of the institution.
Hello Robert. Kindly hide my identity. Am desperate, in distress and a depressed Kenyan. I am a NURSE by profession, I am working in Mediheal-eastleigh Hospital.
I want to highlight a few things that are not being done right here.
- Last month but one they introduced a half salary effective May, as of today, we have not been paid for two months, despite working fulltime, round the clock, managing patients with COVID, others without.
- I am a Healthcare provider, I have not paid rent for two months, no salary, its end of July now. Still we have no salary for last month. yet we have always had patients in the hospital at all times. Man we have people who depend on us, we have bills to pay, some of us have already been kicked out of our houses. Its not fair the Indian nurses who work here, are paid more(and its okey am not complaining) and they are housed by the hospital so they don’t go through the hustle that we go through. Man, kindly come through for us. I am giving in. I can’t take it anymore.
KoT shared their opinions on the issue. It is not easy for MediHeal because in the past, a doctor at the hospital was accused of organ trafficking.
Prem Gokul Kumar, a former staff of human organ trafficking Continental Hospital in Bangladesh was hired by MediHeal.
Kumar had signed an agreement with Tareque Azam alias Bablu Chowdhury has been a key figure in the illegal kidney business in Dhaka and Joypurhat district in Bangladesh since 2006. He had arranged transplants for around 30 persons, receiving Rs 3-4 lakh taka per transplant, while the kidney donor was paid only a paltry sum.
Currently, Prem kumar Gokul is serving as the Vice President International Business Development – Mediheal Group of Hospitals in Kenya which is owned by Dr. Swarup Ranjan Mishra, MP Kesses.
Here below Kenyans share their opinion on the staff non-payment matter:
@AtwoliDza which actions can be taken against such mistreatment happening in private institutions like Mediheal? #RotInMediHeal pic.twitter.com/Ug3bzsVa6P
— T'Challa (@MteteziKE) August 3, 2020
Nakuru County is worse ..they are busy siphoning health insurance covers with exorbitant bills.
Teachers and Police covers @Minet_Kenya still went to bed despite the poor services rendered #RotInMediHeal— The Famous Cheboiwo (@sircheboiwo_) August 3, 2020
Mediheal Hospital is just a name. Reception in their hospital is a place you will not want to pass through. They don't see patients as patients. They see you as who come for becking them for treatment #RotInMediHeal pic.twitter.com/0Fz1N6qW6d
— THOMAS (@MiregwaThomas) August 3, 2020
The Hospital made me hate nurses, doctors and private hospitals with passion. #RotInMediHeal pic.twitter.com/O7rBBialc8
— THOMAS (@MiregwaThomas) August 3, 2020
