Bid to crack down on fake health care budget claimsThe cabinet has approved a proposal to allow local administration organisations to take over the administration of the health care budget allocated to areas under their jurisdiction and switch to electronic forms of budget disbursement. Local health budget administration was previously the responsibility of a local health security committee. The proposal was made by the National Health Security Office (NHSO), the state committee which handles the universal health care budget. The office is conducting a investigation into at least 18 community health clinics suspected of embezzling health care budgets through false disbursement claims -- thought to be first of reported case of corruption in the universal health care budget that has run for 18 years. Contracts signed with the 18 health clinics had been terminated following the health budget embezzlement scandal.

Source: Bangkok Post September 03, 2020 00:33 UTC