Opinion / Columnist
Deliver us from PSMAS
27 Jun 2014 at 13:52hrs | Views
The inefficiency of PSMAS is a threat to national security and a clear testimony to mismanagement of public funds. Relevant powers please intervene and address the anomaly that is unjustifiable anyhow.
It is disheartening to contribute at least US$30 a month in medical aid only to be denied purchase of drugs which cost less than US$5. My disgruntlement is fresh and l feel a prick deep in my heart as l try to come to terms with the essence of having a medical aid in the name of PSMAS after all.
When one contributes money towards the medical aid where does it go at the end of the day? Are our contributions being directed somewhere else and by whom? Is my money used to cure somebody else besides me the holder?
Someone from PSMAS please answer the nation.
Government should worry and incentivise public effort towards a better healthcare by just monitoring and putting the necessary frameworks and legal statutes to deal with those who embezzle public property.
PSMAS is subscribed to by the majority of the civil service and an economy flourishes on the background of a health workforce. Leaving the health care at the mercies of vultures is shooting self in the foot on the part of government.
What is worrying in this case is the fact that the members fork out their money and no one seems to be accountable for it. To then say they cannot access drugs is fraudulent. The contributions are just the same with other medical aid societies. What is the special case with PSMAS?
The authorities of this organisation should just spare some respect for human life. What boggles the mind are the high profile allegations that never realised any arrests.
Why does evil seem to prosper in Zimbabwe. The daylight devils appear immune to the laws of the state and hop from one influential position to the other steering controversy in each entity they head.
PSMAS inefficiency is a double tragedy to an already poor civil servant who, after contributing a substantive $30 per month in medical aid, goes on to fork out more funds for the same service. Each time one tries to access medication with the PSMAS cover, its either you are told we do not accept that medical aid or our network is down.
Someone has to be accountable to this siphoning of public funds of the poor and be brought to justice.
Source - Wiseman Tembo
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