Engaging socialised health: St Jean de Malte Hospital Djombe accrued FCFA 12M deficit in 2023

By Doh James Sonkey The Director General of the Saint Jean de Malte Hospital in Djombe-Penja, Littoral region, Michel Vautrot has revealed that in 2023 the hospital finished the year “with an unpaid bill of FCFA 12 million because most patients we treated first did not pay their hospital bills.” He was speaking last June 3, 2024 while receiving a delegation of the media led by the Communication Consultant at the Technical Secretariat of the French Debt Relief and Development Contract, C2D, Jean Paul Tchomdou. The Hospital Director General further explained that, “when a patient comes to our hospital, we…