FAKE SICK NOTES AT HLATIKHULU GOVT HOSPITAL?

MANZINI - Yet another government hospital has been fingered in the issuing of sick notes, fraudulently. 

This, after some textile factories noted that there was a widespread usage of allegedly fraudulent sick notes among the workforce in the sector and most of them were allegedly issued from the Hlatikhulu Government Hospital.

As a result, one of the textile companies; Tex Ray Group has approached the office of the Director of Health Services for its intervention as the company was among the most affected. The correspondence was written by the company’s Human Resources (HR) Manager Gcina Mamba.

In its correspondence to the Ministry of Health, which is dated April 18, 2019, the company said it was hoping to get assistance from the office of the director in its quest to verify sick notes presented to the company by employees who were alleged to have obtained these sick notes by fraudulent means at Hlatikhulu Government Hospital.

The company said the sick notes were in its possession and while it was still waiting for clarification on whether they were properly acquired or not, some (of the sick dates) have been already paid to the employees according to the law.

Mamba said the company had been receiving sick notes from the government hospital which were alleged to have been acquired through fraudulent means.

Authentic

“The company has it in authority that some of the sick notes are not authentic as one of our employees confessed to have obtained it through back door means,” reads part of the letter from Tex Ray Group to the office of the Director of Health. Thereafter, Mamba said the company instituted investigations and the first trip to the government hospital was on April 3, 2019. He said in their meeting with the hospital’s senior staff, they confirmed the allegations investigated, as no signature appeared in the sick notes they brought for confirmation was similar to the authentic signatures displayed in their office.

“However, their verbal confirmation was not reduced to a written one, something which disappointed us because we were hoping to get a written proof from the hospital’s administration, just like other health centres who cooperated with us,” Mamba said in the letter.

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