From the events which have unfolded it is very clear that our
government is trying to live up to its own agendas of preventing
welfarism and promoting their concepts of paying higest salaries
and bonuses to their own version of leaderships and talents. This
is to safeguard their own kinds of pays and benefits which the
people have been questioning over the years. In doing so, it will
not be in its interest to answer to people's request to put more
donation monies to spend on patients suffering from illnesses or
kidney failures.
Not only has the government been increasing their own hospital and
poly clinic medical fees, it is still trying to create their own
world-class medical services using the public monies to do so. It
will let serving doctors who are already paid to the highest as
compared with private consultants it is offering more attractive
schemes to let them achieve world-class standards.
People become the genuea pigs to enable government to build
world-class this and that paying all the people's hard-earned
monies to do so. No thoughts have been given to lowering medical
fees or avoid double-charging on lands for esential services.
The key factor of our highest medical costs and all the other costs
of living has so far and in the final analysis been prompted by
their concept of paying the highest pays to their won versions of
talents and building images and names for themselves.
People have no choice in this kind of pretentious look-good
government but to help themselves and rally to support charity
causes. They have to contribute from their already low wages to
support many patients suffering from illness, kidney failures or
cancers.
When donations reached millions instead of helping to get the
donations to pay the pateints' treatments, the government tries to
use NKF to create their own world-class image for their own purpose
so that NKF will eventually be red-cross of the world as mentioned
by minister Khaw.
Again, this NKF episode simply showed a sick syndrome of a
government obsessed to prove its own leadership, standing, image in
the world. It is allowing monies donated to save lives of patients
being turned to promoting the NKF brand name than saving lives to
the fullest possible.
Thus it is very clear that this episode is a contest between people
cause to lower costs and save suffering patients on the one hand
and government justifying its success in building its own name and
institutions.
What if we reach the status of NKF becoming a world red cross? How
many patients might be turned away to die due to expensive
treatments NKF will still be charging?
Whatever abuses or luxuries spent from our public charity donations
by NKF or Durai might be grossed over as can be seen from the
latest pronouncements of ministers. The new CEO will not be
disclosing his salary. But will he eventually receive higher or
close to S$600,000 previously paid to Durai is a question to be
answered. It seems from the utterances of ministers and Mr. Khaw
that the highest pays of CEOs even if higher than average of
medical CEOs is immaterial.
The CPIB and IRAS might not even go into investigation of
court-disclosed wrong doings in due course after more
pronouncements by ministers and MPs that NKF has been a great
world-class institution in their eyes.
Mr Khaw did not disclose Professor Goh Chee Leok's current salaries
which showed that in due course, Mr. Khaw might just want to
recommend similarly highest minister-like salaries to their own
version of talents - the principal government's own agendas in the
whole episode.
