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GOVERNMENT has directed Premier Service Medical Aid Society to hold a special general meeting on Friday to dissolve the board and pave way for issuance of an operating licence for 2014.Yesterday, Government instructed PSMAS to publish a notice to all members by tomorrow notifying them of the special general meeting.
Health and Child Care Deputy Minister Dr Paul Chimedza said: “The two major issues to be discussed at the special general meeting are the dissolution of the board of directors and the appointment of an interim manager to run the affairs of the society for a stipulated period,” he said.
Health Acting Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora said the society’s operating licence was not renewed at the end of 2013 after PSMAS failed to submit audited financial statements.
The order to new PSMAS chairman Luxon Zembe to hold a special general meeting on Friday comes after civil servants, who form the majority of contributors to the society, met in Harare last week to make a similar demand.
They want dissolution of the board following revelations of mega salaries paid to top managers at the society. The salaries scandal saw chief executive Dr Cuthbert Dube sent on retirement on January 27, while board chair Meisie Namasasu was dismissed.
Dr Dube reportedly took home over $500,000 in salaries and allowances every month at a time the society was struggling to meet its mandate. He was paid about $6,4 million annually in salaries and allowances.
Nearly 80 percent of PSMAS members are civil servants and in accordance with the society’s constitution, at least 10 percent of them can call for a special AGM to deal with matters affecting the society.
Secretary for Information, Media and Broadcasting Services George Charamba, who is also a PSMAS board member, said last Thursday that the society’s board was now operating on an interim basis with a special general meeting expected any time soon.
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