MALPRACTICES AT KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (KEMRI)
In the case of Okiya Omtatah Okoiti v KEMRI Board of Management [2014] eKLR (Ind Ct), Dr. Kizito Lubano blew the whistle on malpractices at KEMRI. He was demoted and transferred to a small centre and started receiving warning letters that he had never had before in his 20 years of service.
FRAUD AT BAYER PHARMACEUTICALS, Inc
Mr. Mike Townsend was employed as a sales representative. He was in charge of Bayer’s Mirena birth control device. His duties included visiting doctors from time to time. One day he discovered one of the doctors imported a cheaper version of Bayer’s Mirena from Canada, and put in Medicaid claims using the pricing of the […]
Safety in Medicine:
Dr. Alice Stewart – Medical Practitioner – ridiculed, later vindicated In the 1940’s, Dr. Alice Stewart was the youngest and one of a few women members of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK. She investigated the high occurrences of cancers in children from well to do families. At the time, disease was more […]