What ???!!!!
$300 per patient per dialysis ???
Despite all the huge charity collected by kind hearted public, and
the kidney patients from the lower to lower-middle income groups -
(staying in 1-Room, 2-Room, or even 3 or 4-Room HDB flats) - still
have to pay $300 out of their meagre incomes for each dialysis at
NKF ?
All this charges resulted in a whopping $24million in dialysis fees
for a single year in 2003 - despite having $220million in their
reserves from charity donations over the years (ST Home Page H4)
!!!
The audacity to pay himself 12 months bonus in 2003 and 2004 (at a
time when retrenchments and wage reductions were the norm) reflects
sheer personal greed and self-gratification !!!
The audacity of including the perks of having a fleet of Mercedes
Benz costing at least $200,000 each, and with chauffers paid at
least $1400 per month inclusive of OT and CPF payments - and the
high costs of service and maintenance charges to support the fleet
of M/Benz.
Inland Revenue should look deeper into the income and expenses of
the entire Board of Directors and Managment of NKF, and
reconsidering all the perks and entitlements enjoyed with the view
of including these amounts as taxable incomes.
No wonder, during the 1980s, there was a tussle between NKF and
Singapore Kidney Dialysis Foundation for the privilege of being the
Premier and Leading Organisation to provide dialysis service, and
to promote the collection of charity from the Public.
It was pure a money making plot from the beginning.
