Jellybean 069 Oliver May versus the world

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Fraud and Counter-Fraud. NGO’s like Oxfam are now a huge part of the international healthcare system. When you look at the environments these organisations work in, from Oxford to South Sudan, there are corruption issues everywhere. Corruption! We need a cop, a super cop, a stylish sleuth, a sort of crime-buster for NGO’s. It’s @OliverBMay of @2ndMarshmallow Have you have ever had a dream of going and working for Médecins Sans Frontières or something similar? I did. I was idealistic. It was all heroic images, making a difference, not in it for the money and the moral high ground. I went off and did a Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Then I did a Post Grad Cert in Disaster Management and Refugee Health. When I studied it I also saw the other side of the story; the colonial flavour to it all, questions about efficacy, undermining local capacity, a possible lack of standards/the Sphere Project, money badly spent and the fraud. The fraud. Oh God the fraud. There is an impression that there are back handers and bribes going down everywhere to get anywhere. But is that correct? Is it that bad? Can nothing be done? I don’t know. So I asked a man who does. It’s Oliver May, formerly Counter-Fraud Czar for some very big Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO’s) and author of a book on the whole crazy circus. ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: JellyBean corruption Médecins Sans Frontières NGO Oliver May oxfam Second Marshmallow Source Type: blogs