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Corporate24 boss in the dock for fraud
Corporate24 Medical Centre founder and CEO, Mike Joka Tuesday appeared before a Harare magistrate accused of swindling Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) of ZW$108,860 in 2021.Joka is...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police, ZACC probe 3 PSMAS bosses
Police this week picked up for questioning three Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) managers over allegations of fraud, corruption and criminal abuse of office.The three, who are stil...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'bribes' for chiefs slammed
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's move to extend free health care to chiefs a few months before major elections has been criticised as a vote-buying gimmick.Mnangagwa handed access ca...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dialysis patients contribute bus fare for nurses
KIDNEY patients at Premier Services Medical Investment (PSMI)'s Parkview Hospital are reportedly contributing bus fare to enable striking nurses and doctors to report for work and attend to them....Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide over mounting debts
A PREMIER Service Medical Investments (PSMI) loss control supervisor, Bernard Chatindivara, who was stationed at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo, committed suicide on Saturday after being overwhelmed by de...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Public workers want Parly to investigate PSMAS
The civil service workers umbrella body has called on Parliament to probe into just what is happening at Premier Service Medical Aid Society that has resulted in health facilities owned by its subsidi...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga summoned
PARLIAMENT has summoned Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to give a ministerial statement on the chaos at Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas), as well as inform the nation why the public hea...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
PSMAS gets $4,25bn bailout
Another $4,25 billion has been provided by the Government to bail out Premier Service Medical Aid Society and get the country's largest society, and the one that is used by almost all State employees,...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
PSMI faces collapse
EMBATTLED Premier Services Medical Investments (PSMI) shut down 120 of its 155 facilities last month as the entity battled to settle a four-month salary arrears bill in a turbulent period that culmina...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'93% Zimbabweans have no health insurance'
ABOUT 93% of Zimbabweans have no access to health insurance due to high poverty levels in the country, while only 7% can afford private health services.This came out during a stakeholder engag...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals to get modern equipment
Modern hospital equipment and machinery will be procured by the Government to replace old and obsolete items to ensure patients access quality services, Vice President and Health and Child Care Minist...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Huge perks for PSMI boss
THE managing director of Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI) Dr Tafadzwa Gutu is living large with a lucrative contract that sees him pocket US$23 000 a month in salary and allowances.W...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Strike paralyses major hospitals
WORKERS from other sectors have started joining a tools down job action by health personnel and teachers who are demanding United States dollar salaries.The strike entered its third day yester...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Private hospital doctors strike
PATIENTS admitted to Premier Service Claybank Hospital in Gweru have gone for two days without getting medical care as more than 200 nurses, doctors, and health support staff at the upmarket health ca...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga announces PSMAS bailout
Struggling medical insurance company Premier Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) will receive a government bailout to clear its debts and improve its balance sheet, vice president Constantino Chiwenga said on...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga defends 'reckless' ministers
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has defended the continued defiance of COVID-19 regulations by ministers at a time when the government has put in place a strict COVID-19 measur...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-graft unit probes PSMAS
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special unit on anti-corruption is investigating alleged rampant abuse of funds at the government-owned Premier Services Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) amid claims that top...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Over $29m mobilised for Zimbabwe cholera
Government has so far mobilised $29 million out of $64,1 million required to fight cholera, amid indications that the outbreak has been contained with the number of patients visiting health institutio...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government shells out $60 million treasury bills
Government's debt to Premier Service Medical Investment (PSMI) is set to increase on account of future interest costs after it approved a $60 million issue of treasury bills (TBs) to refinance and rol...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Medical aid firm targets informal sector
FAST-growing Gweru-based medical aid company, Zimbabwe General Medical Aid Fund (ZG Medical) has begun tapping into the country's vast jobless market, which is usually neglected by most insurance and ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
IDBZ to ease students accommodation crisis
THE Infrastructural Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) has secured land for the construction of a student accommodation facility in Lupane for students at Lupane State University.This comes as Lupane Sta...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Premier Services caught up in isiNdebele spelling storm
PREMIER Optometry Services (POS) has been caught up in an isiNdebele spelling and grammar storm after it wrote a meaningless notice in the language.From the Shona and English translations, the...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ Student dies in freak accident
A University of Zimbabwe (UZ) student, Emmanuel Tsuro, who was on attachment at Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI) on Friday died from severe burns suffered after a fire erupted when he wa...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 14:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PSMI workers strike cripples services
Normal services are yet to resume at Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI)'s businesses following a demonstration by some aggrieved employees over unpaid salary arrears last Friday. A...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Medical aid societies risk lawsuits
MEDICAL aid societies risk litigation from patients if doctors stop accepting health insurance cards and demand cash upfront with effect from July 1. It is estimated that about 1,2 million Zimbabweans...Published: 18 Jun 2016 at 10:42hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
PSMI doctors back at work
Premier Service Medical Investments Pvt) Ltd (PSMI) medical practitioners have gone back to work after they reached an understabnding with the management over their salaries.In a s...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 05:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Cuthbert Dube and co to pay back $22 million to PSMAS
EX-PREMIER Service Medical Aid Society group chief executive officer Dr Cuthbert Dube and his management team will be forced to return US$22 million-plus they allegedly siphoned out of the institution...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike intensifies
The strike by Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) doctors entered its second day yesterday amid indications that the health insurer was awaiting the release of funds from Government to ease th...Published: 25 Nov 2015 at 05:08hrs | | by Lisa Shirichena
PSMI doctors down tools
Premier Services Medical Investments (PSMI) yesterday shut its doors to the public after doctors and other medical staff went on strike over unpaid salaries, owing to the government's failure to p...Published: 24 Nov 2015 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa should return PSMAS $100k, resign
Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa should return the $100 000 advance payment that was unprocedurally made to him by Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) last year and resign ...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PSMAS wrongfully pay Parirenyatwa $100 000
Struggling Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) paid Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa $100 000 to his private firm, a figure well above his claims.Parirenyatwa runs CHEST company ...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Labour Court blocks Cuthbert Dube's $3m payout
Arbitral awards giving former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) chief executive Dr Cuthbert Dube over $3 million in salary arrears that accrued since his sacking in January last year, are de...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 23:17hrs | 1 | by Fidelis Munyoro
Cuthbert Dube shares $22m with PSMAS bosses
ELEVEN Premier Service Medical Aid Society executives, led by former group CEO Dr Cuthbert Dube, splurged US$22,8 million in "executive allowances" outside the payroll and evaded tax, resulting in the...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 15:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Looting frenzy at PSMI exposed
PSMI company's managing director Farai Muchena, finance director Victor Chaipa and operations director Tafadzwa Gutu are said to have earned extortionate salaries and benefits. The three d...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cuthbert Dube loses PSMI stake
Fired Premier Service Medical Aid Society group chief executive officer Cuthbert Dube has lost his 20 percent shareholding in Premier Service Medical Investments, PSMAS' investment arm, after me...Published: 22 May 2015 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mandishona appointed as new PSMAS boss
The Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) has appointed human capital expert and business consultant Henry Mandishona (37) as its managing director with effect from May 1. Mandishona's m...Published: 06 May 2015 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
PSMAS will not pay Dube's $3 million pay-out
Premier Service Medical Aid Society says it will not pay its former group chief executive officer Cuthbert Dube $3 million in backdated salaries awarded by an arbitrator, arguing that his contract...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Cuthbert Dube wins $3,4m salary case against PSMAS
Former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) board chairman Cuthbert Dube last Tuesday won a $3 million arbitral award against the embattled medical aid society and sought to have it regist...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dr Cuthbert Dube $2m by PSMAS
Former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) CEO, Dr Cuthbert Dube has won an labour case against the health service provider, after an arbitrator ruled that PSMAS owes him more than $2 mill...Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 14:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dr Cuthbert Dube loses $1million salary arrears case
The Labour Court has thrown away two cases in which former Premier Service Medical Aid Society group chief executive Dr Cuthbert Dube is demanding nearly $1 million in salary arrears from the society...Published: 29 Aug 2014 at 08:45hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
'Cuthbert Dube still employed by PSMAS'
Lawyers representing former Premier Services Medical Aid Society chief executive officer Dr Cuthbert Dube say their client was still employed by the health insurer because his contract had not been te...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cuthbert Dube got $138 000 monthly salary from company he was never employed by
Former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) chief executive officer Cuthbert Dube drew a staggering $138 000 monthly salary from a subsidiary of the health insurer despite he was not an employ...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
PSMI think Bulawayo is 'Buluwayo'
Premier Service Medical Investments (Pvt) Ltd (PSMI) has come under attack for wrongly spelling Bulawayo four times on its website.The PSMI website spelt Bulawayo as "BULUWAYO" four time...Published: 03 Jun 2014 at 16:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Govt sabotaged PSMAS,' says Charamba
Government had to use underhand tactics, including coercion, in dealing with the troubled Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) board because of a lack of clear policy framework to regulate the ...Published: 31 Mar 2014 at 10:38hrs | | by Richard Chidza
Jonathan Moyo attack those opposed to Salarygate exposés
Jonathan Moyo, the Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister, has launched a blistering attack on politicians opposed to the ongoing Salarygate exposés, saying attempts to defend or hide ...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 14:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
PSMAS board of directors dissolves itself
The Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) board of directors yesterday dissolved itself with immediate effect. Chairperson Mr Luxon Zembe; his deputy Mr Newton Mhlanga; Advocate Moses Mt...Published: 15 Feb 2014 at 05:43hrs | 65 | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Of CEO salaries, corporate governance, corruption
Accounting and the function of parliament in ZimbabweOf late the local media has been awash with reports of the astronomical salaries being paid to CEOs...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 15:15hrs | 2 | by Patrick Ndlovu
Mugabe aide admits he was incompetent, willing to step down
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba has admitted that he was incompetent as a board member at the Premier Services Medical Aid Society (PSMAS), adding that he was willing to step do...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe aide named in PSMAS looting
Presidential spokesman George Charamba has been sucked into the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) benefits saga amid revelations that he sat on the beleaguered medical funder's main board...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cuthbert Dube back in the news again
Sacked Premier Service Medical Aid Society group chief executive officer Dr Cuthbert Dube retired late last year, but was immediately re-employed on a contract basis and with a raft of benefits that i...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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