Public Service Employee Medical Aid Scheme (PSEMAS)

21 Jul

Civil servants push back on Psemas restrictions

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Justicia Shipena The Teachers Union of Namibia (TUN) has opposed the government's decision to limit the use of the Public Service Employee Medical Aid Scheme (Psemas) to private healthcare facilities. On Friday, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah announced that shehe had instructed the health ministry to work on a plan to redirect Psemas usage from private to public health institutions. She said this shift aims to boost investment in public hospitals and clinics. “We don’t use the state facilities and that is why I said, minister of health, with your team, I gave them a timeframe. We will start with senior civil…

29 Sep

PSEMAS audit still on-going

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Staff Writer The Ministry of Finance says the audit process of the Public Service Employee Medical Aid Scheme (PSEMAS) launched last year is still on-going, with 75 percent of the main members and 95 percent of dependents having been verified as part of measures to reduce fraud and abuse of the government employee’s medical fund. The member audit comes as media reports attributed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revealed the medical aid fund has been losing close to a billion dollars annually to fraud, abuse, waste and collusion. “During the first phase of the verification 95 percent of dependents…