Monrovia — The Chief Executive officer of Liberia's premier medical provider, the John F. Kennedy Medical center, Dr. Jerry F. Brown has denied allegations that the hospital often sends patients out to buy drugs that should have been provided by the hospital.
Dr. Brown, appearing alongside his top management team before the joint Budget Committee of the Legislature to defend the expenditure component of the hospital's proposed budget for FY2020/2021 was confronted by Rep. Marvin Cole (District #3, Bong County) who raised concerned over the hospital's constant practice of prescribing medications for most of its patients and leaving them to fetch it for themselves outside of the facility.
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