Beat Richner "Test Private Clinic Doctors"

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Dr. Beat Richner, an advisor to the Ministry of Health, called on the government on Sunday to test doctors working in private clinics throughout the Kingdom and if they failed, their clinic should be closed, he said. He said this after 146 severely ill children were transferred from private clinics and referral hospitals to Kantha Bopha hospitals early on Sunday morning.
 

According to Dr. Richner, the children suffered from dengue fever and encephalitis. They were improperly treated by doctors working in private clinics and referral hospitals. “As advisor to the Ministry of Health, I ask the Ministry of Health to organize exams for medical doctors working in private clinics. If they do not pass the exam, their private clinic must be closed,” wrote Dr. Richner in a post to his Facebook page on Sunday.
 

He added that his hospitals had spent a lot of money transferring the sick children from the private clinics and referral hospitals, where neither a diagnosis was carried out nor a correct treatment was given. They also kept the patients for too many days to get as much money as they could, he said. The pediatric doctor said that no staff at his hospitals worked at private clinics and no one took money from patients. As a result, he said, the Kantha Bopha hospitals showed “the best correlation cost/healing rate” and there was no corruption at all.

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