PSMAS to resume normal services

SOME normal services are set to resume today at the hospitals, clinics and pharmacies owned by PSMAS’ investment arm, PSMI, while four months of unpaid basic salary for staff is paid, following a $4,25 billion bail-out from Government this week.

Some units and some services might not be restored until December 1, PSMI warned yesterday, since some of the practitioners and other professional staff quit when they were not being paid, and new staff needed to be hired first.

The required stocks for pharmacies and other units should be in place by the end of next week.

In a statement, PSMI acting managing director Dr Margaret Maulana said normal service was now set to resume.

Representatives of staff, who had declared that they could not afford to come to work as they had not been paid for some time, agreed yesterday at a meeting with PSMI to return to work.

Dr Maulana said the bail out was a huge motivation for workers who declared incapacitation last month resulting in closure of some PSMI units across the country.

“The salary payments will clear basic salaries for now, with outstanding allowances being subsequently cleared at the guidance of the PSMAS principal officer and the regulator.