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SowetanLive reports that the Ekurhuleni unicipality has raised the alarm about a scam in which workers use the city’s public clinic attendance letters as sick notes to fool their bosses.
The rise of this fraud has resulted in the city issuing a public notice to warn employers and to teach the public about the difference between a doctor’s sick note and a clinic attendance letter. The fraud allegations were brought to the municipality’s attention by an employer who visited one of the clinics to verify the credibility of his employee’s sick notes. The employer learned that the notes were clinic attendance letters that had been forged into sick notes. “A clinic attendance letter does not give a patient permission to be off sick as it is a document that serves as a confirmation that a person visited a particular health facility. A clinic attendance letter only confirms that a patient was indeed at the clinic and is mostly given to patients on chronic medication who would ideally spend an hour or two at the clinic to collect their repeat medication or have an appointment,” the municipality pointed out. It further explained that in some instances, employers needed the letter, hence healthcare workers also indicated the time the patient left the health facility.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Londiwe Dlomo at SowetanLive
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