“We want to clear our name. The truth will come out one day,” IMC vice president and chief financial operating Tony Glad said in an interview with the Variety yesterday.
Glad is appealing with the AGO to release IMC’s computers.
“They told us that the computers were in Hawaii. After several months, they said our computers were actually with them,” Glad said.
“It is a nightmare everyday. We’re bleeding with finances, both payables and receivables. Patients are also angry because we can’t provide them their records,” Glad added.
“Lawsuits have been filed. How can we respond when our records contained in computers are with the AG?”
In a letter to Special Assistant Attorney General Joseph Przyuski on May 12, IMC medical director Dr. H. Christine Brown said: “We have been waiting for over one year to get our computers back. We have given permission for our hard drives to be copied, yet we have not received our computers.”
She added, “This has become quite a hardship for us not having the computers.”
Brown’s personal computer was among those seized last year.
She said about eight computers were seized from IMC that contained over 33,000 patient charts.
“We have no way to find a specific chart as we need the computers to find them. We have already had patients ask for their old records and we have no way of providing them,” Brown said in her letter to Przyuski.
Asked for comment, Przyuski said in a telephone interview that he had not received Brown’s letter, and would have to check their records.
“The matter is still under investigation,” he said as he declined to further comment.
Glad named his former accounts manager, Romy Dolot, as behind the irregularities at IMC..
Glad said they have not pursued a case against Dolot who left the island days after the Bureau of Environmental Health closed down IMC in March 2008 due to noncompliance with rules and regulations and for faking laboratory test results of foreign workers.
The Department of Public Health lifted the suspension order in Oct. 2008.
In Jan. 2009, IMC was sued for failing to pay rent for its leased space in Susupe and for leaving the premises in bad condition.
Glad said they are now waiting for the Department of Public Health to sign a lease agreement allowing IMC to operate a private clinic at Commonwealth Health Center.
