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TT Durai to step down as NKF
CEO
SINGAPORE : The NKF Board and its CEO Mr TT Durai have offered to
resign in order to give the Health Minister a free hand on
restoring public confidence.
In a statement, the Health Ministry says they have requested the
minister's assistance to re-constitute a new Board and appoint a
new CEO.
In the interest of the dialysis patients and the NKF, the Health
Minister has agreed to help in this effort.
The Ministry statement says over the next few days, the government
will appoint an interim board to ensure the continuous operation of
NKF's vairous dialysis centres.
It will also work on medium term tasks including forming a new
board, appointing a new CEO, reviewing accounting practices,
funding needs and pricing and subsidy policies.
Pending completion of these reviews, the Health Ministry says the
NKF will suspend all active fundraising activities.
Earlier, the Chairman and members of the board, together with its
CEO, had approached Mr Khaw Boon Wan for advise on how to respond
to the public reactions to the ongoing court case between the NKF
and the Singapore Press Holdings.
Mr Khaw had stressed two immediate priorities.
These are that caring for NKF dialysis patients should not be
disrupted in any way and secondly the shattered public confidence
must be restored.
Both the NKF board members and the CEO shared this view. -
CNA/de
Hopefully, the severance of ties is in full and without
reservations. I wish the new CEO and new board the best of luck.
Gaining back the confidence lost from the public is a mammoth and
unenviable task.
Perhaps the patron should step down as well while they're at it.
Otherwise some leftovers will unsettle fresh faces.
