Scandal rocks cash strapped Mpilo Hospital

Cash-strapped Mpilo Central Hospital could have been fleeced of millions of dollars through a suspected well-orchestrated scam in which fake receipts were issued to patients and service providers by the accounts department working in cahoots with others since dollarisation of the economy in 2009.  

The multi-million dollar scam could have prejudiced the major referral hospital of revenue resulting in the institution struggling to meet its obligations.

Mpilo Hospital chief executive officer Lawrence Mantiziba said that they had discovered that several receipts books long being phased out were still in circulation at the institute.