[EnderWiggins]

"The most obvious reason is that each department in the hospital could have a chief administrator of that department simply as an alternate title for department head, so there could multiple chief administrators in the hospital for each department. Long titles take up precious space in newspaper stories and on administrative stamps and may be abbreviated for convenience."

Okay, let's test that little theory.

If there were more than one at a time, we should be able to find simultaneous overlapping references to both at the same time? But we don't, we only find one at a time, and there is clear point at which one is (in the coverage) replaced by the other.

From 2001 until at least 2006 the Chief Administrator was Dr Khadija Shikelly. No overlap with any other in all that time either..

If you don't believe me, go search for yourself... go check. I have.

[Seizethecarp]

The newspapers are very imprecise when reporting whether an individual is chief administrator of a medical department or alternatively chief administrator of the entire hospital, yet you continue to play this up as if it proves anything.

Two individuals can simultaneously be "chief administrator" with one being of a department and the other of the entire hospital. They can also change roles.

Othigo was on the way out in early 2009 because in late 2008, these same newspapers reported that under her administration, however broad that was, patients reported that doctors at CPGH were demanding bribes in exchange for treatment.

Transitions can be messy and newspaper reporting sloppy, so public emergence of Maganga as chief of the hospital (with both phonetic spellings of his African name) could have easily been delayed by a few months, say from January to April.

You have reasonable suspicions about conflicting details, but you persist in falsely claiming that your personal suspicions regarding newspaper discrepancies that go both ways "prove" something. Your suspicions about mere discrepancies for which there are alternate exculpatory explanations prove nothing, in my opinion.