Mendi hospital chief executive officer Joseph Turian has refuted media reports of funds abuse and alleged illegal sackings by the hospital as sensational reporting without facts.
Mr Turian called The National from Mendi yesterday refuting media reports that the CEO had sacked people and raised questions on the use of the K150,000 allocated to the hospital.
“All the money allocated had been used on medical equipment bought and handed over by the provincial administrator,” he said.
Mr Turian called on the media for fair and objective reporting especially when people who have axe to grind.
“They have to check with the hospital, we have nothing to hide, we have used the money allocated to us, ” he said.
He said from the K150,000 given, the hospital had bought an ultrasound machine (K60,000), an electronic cardiograph (K30,000), theatre instrument (K13,000), medical reference books (K23,000), Nebuliser machine for asthma patients (K10,000) and the remainder was left to purchase smaller instruments such as stethescope.
Mr Turian said the Auditor-General had screened their books and he was pleased with the outcome of the audits.
He said the officer, who was sacked, was a revenue officer who stole more than K15,000 hospital fees paid for by the people who had come to the hospital for treatment.
He said the other employee sacked was the person who discharged a firearm in front of the director of nursing at the hospital.