Table 3 Example of the qualitative inductive analysis process
Meaning unit | Condensed meaning unit | Category | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|
‘Drugs disappear, because we are poor, they have to eat! Should they [health workers] go and steal on the street? So, that is how people are surviving.’ | Selling drugs to survive | Informal payments is a coping strategy | Informal payment |
‘Me I feel that because of that very little funding people have continued to request money from the patients.’ | Low salaries fueling under table payment | ||
‘If I have paid to get my job, then I’ll work without earning salary, how am I going to survive? I have to get a way of surviving, either I’ll sell the service or I’ll sell the drugs of the hospital.’ | Paying for jobs fueling under table payment | ||
‘So Sister X is invited to the committee to ask the technical questions, after that, she goes out. She is not invited for the evaluation; it is for that committee to decide who is to get that job. So it is than that the committee says ‘we want such and such of money.” | Acquiring a position not only based on who has the best technical knowledge | Informal payments might lead to lack of competences | |
‘Even in the trainings I understand, they tell you that, ‘for us we came to pass eh, because we paid our money.’ So, at times, the basic knowledge they have, is not adequate.’ | Lacking basic knowledge because it is possible to pay to pass |