Special Assignment: Medical Aid Scam, 26 October 2016

Medical Aid Fraud is one of the leading crimes in South Africa with patients and medical practitioners, defrauding medical aids of up to 19-billion rand annually. Money that could have be used to provide better health care for all. In this episode of Special Assignments we lift the lid on the dark world of Medical Aid Fraud, when we expose a syndicate of fake doctors that have defrauded Medical Aids of millions of rands. We catch the culprits in the act as they consult patients, issue fraudulent medical certificates, dispense stolen medication, claiming from medical aids. Despite, the kingpin of the syndicate a registered doctor, having been convicted for fraud, the HPCSA (The Health Professions Council of SA) has allowed him to continue practising, with the criminal justice system failing to act as he continues to expand his criminal enterprise with surgeries in Gauteng and other provinces opened for business. For more news, visit: http://www.sabc.co.za/news