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  • LTC Shaiful Herman, Kuntum Safari, Antara 181 Penerima Biasiswa Tajaan MHA

    LTC Shaiful Herman, Kuntum Safari, Antara 181 Penerima Biasiswa Tajaan MHA

    Seramai 181 pegawai Home Team menerima Anugerah Tajaan Kementerian Ehwal dalam Negeri (MHA) bagi melanjutkan pengajian di peringkat Sarjana Muda dan Pos siswazah.

    Anugerah itu disampaikan oleh Menteri Negara Kanan MHA, Desmond Lee,dalam satu majlis pada Jumaat lalu (29 Julai).

    Leftenan Kolonel Shaiful Herman Shali, 32 tahun, antara penerima Anugerah Tajaan Program Pos Siswazah Sepenuh Masa (Luar Negara) tahun ini.

    Beliau kini bertugas sebagai Penolong Pengarah di Jabatan Pengawalan Bahan Berbahaya, SCDF.

    Dengan tajaan yang diterima, pemuda berusia 32 tahun itu akan mendalami lagi kepakarannya itu dengan melanjutkan pengajian ke peringkat Sarjana dalam bidang Penyiasatan Kebakaran di Universiti Central Lancashire di Britain.

    “Ini merupakan satu kepakaran yang penting bagi SCDF kerana apa juga insiden kebakaran yang kita alami, kita perlu mencari sumber dan puncanya. Jadi saya harap saya akan membawa manfaat juga kepada SCDF setelah saya melalui program ini,” kata beliau.

    Cik Kuntom Safari pula menerima Anugerah Tajaan Program Sarjana Muda Sepenuh Masa dan akan melanjutkan pengajiannya dalam bidang Perhubungan Antarabangsa di Pendidikan Global SIM – Universiti London.

    Ini bukanlah kali pertama wanita berusia 42 tahun ini, menerima tajaan MHA.

    Pada 2012, Cik Kuntom menerima Anugerah Tajaan Program Diploma Separuh Masa dan dengan tajaan kedua itu, impiannya untuk menggenggam segulung ijazah mungkin menjadi satu kenyataan.

    “Untuk melanjutkan pengajian saya ke peringkat universiti adalah salah satu impian saya. Saya sangat bersyukur kerana diberi peluang kedua oleh pihak MHA untuk meningkatkan lagi sijil pengajian saya, dari peringkat diploma ke peringkat universiti,” ujar beliau.

    Beliau berharap pencapaiannya itu dapat dijadikan contoh, terutama kepada anak-anaknya, bahawa usia bukanlah penghalang untuk terus mengejar ilmu.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Damanhuri Abas: Ministers Must Be Held Accountable For Lapses In Financial Management In Their Ministries

    Damanhuri Abas: Ministers Must Be Held Accountable For Lapses In Financial Management In Their Ministries

    In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

    On Thursday, the AGO released its report on serious and major lapses in financial management across several government Ministries and Statutory Boards  across Ministries, to the tune of hundreds of millions of tax-payers money.

    The Singapore government has always pride itself for its much vaunted so-called corrupt free practices and non-tolerance to any corruption. But this revelation from the AGO clearly provides evidences that may show otherwise.

    Singaporeans first need to salute and congratulate the AGO for being courageous in reporting the truth of financial lapses that may be pervasive across the government sectors. And it really begs the question of the kind of flimsy oversight being practiced under the watch of the million-dollar paid Ministers.

    Surely it is only just and fair for Singaporeans to expect a much better job by those premium paid Ministers. Or are they becoming precisely sloppy due to their own self being extremely cash-rich making them lacksadalsicle towards public money under their care.

    Firstly, Singaporeans demand to know from Ministers running those Ministries and Statutory boards their explanations for these serious financial lapses in their respective Ministries. Why and how can it be possible that given the enormous powers vested to them and the people they had assisting them, yet they failed miserably in supervising and ensuring such wastage of public funds given to their care by tax-payers who had to slogged it our tireless for their hard-earned money to pay taxes.

    Secondly, there are plenty of precedents of cases that were given much publicity in the press that led to jail terms to several individuals for lesser amount of money involved, such as the recent case of Hari Raya lighting involving Majlis Pusat. This case involved some inflations of invoices for payments while not going into the pockets of the management team involved, were deemed as CBT worthy cases. And now the expose by the AGO are plenty of worst cases of possibly CBT worthy ones such as the gross inflation of consultation fees of $410,000 for a Bin construction that only cost $60,000. Clearly someone pocketed much public money here.

    For these and many more reasons of consistency and transparency that the public demands accountability by all the Ministers whose Ministries were flagged by the AGO, for the clear failure of oversight.

    What is more fundamental here is the need to call these Ministers to task as they were only a while ago demanding such serious consequences to WP and its leadership for alleged financial lapses involving the AHPETC. Ministers were so bold as to even call for severe action even for hara-kiri as a benchmark for lapses of management of public money. Now these same Ministers have been very silent when they are now caught for much bigger quantum of losses of public money that they are responsible for.

    Singaporeans must not allow the AGO report to go quietly away but must insist that Ministers come clean and explain the serious failures of their own governance of public money and must take the full responsibility for it. Singaporeans remember clearly that these Ministers are paid premium justified precisely on terms that now dictate consequences upon their failures of duty.

    The government must now walk their own talk.

     

    Source: Damanhuri Abas

  • Damanhuri Abas: Ministers Job Is To Ensure Check And Balance, Not Defend The Wrongs

    Damanhuri Abas: Ministers Job Is To Ensure Check And Balance, Not Defend The Wrongs

    The AGO job is to flag the financial irregularities. The onus is upon the Ministries and Stat Board flagged to come clean and explain what happened. Already we have Grace Fu trying hard to justify the gross 410K expertise NAC engaged for a Rubbish Bin design.

    The root cause is about genuine check and balance, safeguards and transparency. Its a chronic reality that begins from the very top when a culture of non-transparency on public money is justified for bigger sums like our CPF, reserves, and the like.

    In Parliament, MPs (especially opposition) have the privilege of demanding the Ministries to come clean on these financial lapses. Sadly the parliament is severely lopsided. Thus allowing the continuation of bad practices and lack or transparency on our public money to continue.

    Ultimately, its about democracy and parliamentary representation for the people to truly be able to voice their concerns. These are severely undermined by the current GRC system which allow for systematic demographic manipulation thru redrawing boundaries justified by irrelevant basis of ensuring minority representation.

    Bigger things r at stake for Spore. Singaporeans sadly r easily distracted.

     

    Source: Damanhuri Abas

  • Woman Gets Wrong Jab, Faced Other Errors At Choa Chu Kang Polyclinic

    Woman Gets Wrong Jab, Faced Other Errors At Choa Chu Kang Polyclinic

    Over the past couple of months, housewife Karen Koh experienced a series of errors in her dealings with Choa Chu Kang Polyclinic, culminating in her getting the wrong vaccine earlier this month.

    She had gone to the polyclinic to do three fasting blood tests in May.

    She was having lunch after having her blood drawn when she saw that the bill did not include the test for cholesterol levels.

    When she checked, she was told that the staff had not taken her blood for the test and was told to return the next day to have her blood drawn again as she had already eaten.

    She asked to see a doctor, who got a nurse to divert some of the blood already taken, so she would not need to return the next day.

    The next error occurred when Madam Koh, 32, wanted to use her Medisave. She filled up a form, but was told by the cashier that it was not needed.

    After she got home, the polyclinic called to say the form was needed after all. Madam Koh refused another trip to the polyclinic. The cashier apologised and said she would collect the form from Madam Koh as it had been her fault.

    Earlier this month, Madam Koh was bitten by a dog and went to the polyclinic for a tetanus jab but was given one for typhoid instead.

    The polyclinic told her about the error the next day and apologised. A team from the National Healthcare Group Polyclinics (NHGP), which runs the polyclinic, met her to explain that she was told the next day as it took time to count the vaccines to confirm the error.

    Dr Lew Yii Jen, NHGP senior director of clinical services, checked on Madam Koh and said she had not suffered from any side effects from the typhoid jab.

    Ms Jancy Mathews, NHGP’s deputy director of nursing, said one nurse had taken the vaccine to Madam Koh and another had given the jab. Neither had checked that it was the correct one.

    She said the nurse “did not check the vaccine before administering it because she had been distracted” and the packaging for the two vaccines looked alike.

    She added that the nurse had not followed protocol that required her to use the electronic immunisation system to verify the vaccine before administering it.

    The minutes of a meeting which the NHG shared with The Straits Times said the nurses voluntarily told the clinic of the error.

    Madam Koh did not subsequently get a tetanus jab.

    Dr Asok Kurup, an infectious diseases specialist at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, said tetanus, a bacterial infection that can cause locked jaw, is rare here, but should be considered after a dog bite.

    He said: “If it is a deep wound, and the individual had been previously immunised in childhood, but without a booster in the last five to 10 years, a tetanus toxoid shot is required.”

    It is best to get the jab within 24 hours, but it is also acceptable within a three-day period, he said.

    Madam Koh asked for a refund. She received a refund this week of $25 for the injection, but not the $12.60 consultation fee.

    Last night, NHGP said it will “refund the full consultation fees as an act of goodwill, even though consultation services had been provided and the doctor had managed Madam Koh appropriately”.

     

    Source: The Straits Times

  • Pelajar Perubatan Terima Biasiswa LBKM Buat Kali Ke-3 Dek Keputusan Cemerlang

    Pelajar Perubatan Terima Biasiswa LBKM Buat Kali Ke-3 Dek Keputusan Cemerlang

    Lembaga Biasiswa Kenangan Maulud (LBKM) menyampaikan biasiswa bernilai S$107,500 dalam satu majlis siang tadi (30 Julai).

    Biasiswa itu diberikan kepada para pelajar di peringkat sarjana muda dan pos siswazah. Kesemuanya, sebanyak 13 biasiswa disampaikan oleh Speaker Parlimen Halimah Yacob.

    Sebanyak 10 daripada mereka merupakan Biasiswa Merit bernilai antara S$5,000 hingga S$7,500. Sementara dua lagi merupakan Biasiswa Berprestij LBKM yang diberikan kepada dua pelajar yang menuntut di 10 universiti terulung dunia, berdasarkan ranking Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) dan Times Higher Education.

    Setiap biasiswa bernilai S$10,000 dan ditawarkan untuk tahun ketujuh tahun ini.

    Salah seorang penerima Biasiswa Berprestij LBKM ialah pelajar perubatan dari Universiti Kolej London, Muhd Ashraf Yusoff, yang menerimanya untuk tahun ketiga berturut-turut kerana berjaya meraih keputusan cemerlang.

    “Bagi saya, anugerah ini adalah sesuatu yang lebih daripada bantuan kewangan sahaja untuk saya dan keluarga saya.

    “Bagi saya, anugerah ini adalah satu amanah yang ingin saya memenuhi untuk mempertingkatkan martabat dan meneruskan kemajuan masyarakat umum, terutamanya, masyarakat Melayu,” kata beliau.

    Source: Berita MediaCorp

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