Irregularities have been reported at LabHOH since 2019. I wrote about them, a number of time.
In spite of the negative buzz, the Dutch-born resident microbiologist was made head of testing for Covid 19 on the island.
They were busy, 33,483 positive results to date, many thousands of negative tests.
Recently, as the flow subsided, with more people fully vaccinated, the resident microbiologist, handed in his resignation. At the current rate there were only few tests to certify, so it was time for him to go, his pockets full, his job done.
This story is extremely juicy.
Because the allegations, now suggest, he got a cut, a commission, a kick back, for every piece of reagent purchased, and by that I mean the testing materials, the substances added to the sample taken from the client, helping detect the presence of the virus.
Think about it. Tests done at the airport, the affiliated labs, on locals and visitors, all by LabHOH, and the good doctor collected his percentage, per.
Perhaps paid into a private account?
But definitely no longer worth his while now, with the virus petering out.
So the question remains, why did the board wait so long, until he resigned, to air grievances, and why didn’t they seriously look into his conduct earlier?
My sources say the following: This man’s signature wasn’t worth anything, he could recommend, but he could not buy anything, he must have had collaborators, whose signatures accessed funds.
Someone at the hospital has been sitting on the information for three years and let ‘irregularities’ go on unchecked, for a reason.
It gives me NO pleasure to tell you that LabHOH is still burdened by the mystery of 4,000 disappeared pap tests. An unresolved case.
Two partners in crime, Bakkas and Lozano, one working here, the other a pathologist in the Netherlands, conspired to do the tests arriving from Aruba privately, perhaps in Dr. Lozano’s makeshift garage lab, instead of handing them over to a certified professional lab.
The scam was genial: Bakkas set up a special company designed to handle the flow of pap tests taken here from local patients, by gynecologists and family physicians. They were supposedly shipped to the Netherlands for diagnosis, but in 4,000 cases, they were lost or ‘inconclusive.’
No news is good news, the doctors here would tell their worried patients, when results failed to show, after a month or two.
Bakkas had HOH invoiced via his company, for the so –called work done by the pathologist in the Netherlands’ makeshift garage lab.
Imagine how much money these two crooks made, and they got away with it.
Imagine how many women were diagnosed late?
Imagine the heart ache and heartbreak, the tension, the nerves, in anticipation for a test result which never came.
No one got mad, except me.
My friends know, I rushed a dear girlfriend to the hospital, she was pale as a ghost, and exhausted, after a year of unexplained symptoms. We almost lost her. Of course, something wasn’t ticking right, but repeated pap tests failed to produce an answers. Results were never received.
I guess, it’s time we blow this up.
Rumors have been circulating for three years, and in the previous scandal, the board KNEW pap tests were processed by Bakkas’ company. Perhaps they didn’t know about the garage, but they knew he positioned himself as the profit-driven middle man.
Who else cashed in on the situation?
We want to know; we deserve to hear.
In a normal world, all partners in crime would have ended up in jail. Not here. Here the nurses get a pay cut.
