Council for Medical Schemes warnes Medicover
20 February 2008 | Healthcare | Medical Schemes | Council for Medical Schemes
The Registrar of Medical Schemes Mr. Patrick Masobe, has today warned the Medicover Medical Scheme that he intends to approach the High Court for urgent relief to safeguard the interests of members in the event of the scheme proceeding with a Special General Meeting scheduled to be held in Bisho on Friday 22 February 2008.The warning to the scheme follows a letter by the Registrar to the trustees, dated 14 February 2008 wherein he advised that the failure by the trustees to comply with the rules of the medical scheme requiring that members be given 14 days notice of the calling of a Special General Meeting, had not been met and that the meeting would accordingly be invalid if held.
Medicover, in spite of the concerns raised by the Registrar, proceeded to inform members via SMS during the course of the past weekend, of the venue for the meeting.
The Registrar has advised the scheme that he will approach the High Court for urgent relief to safeguard member interests in the event of the trustees proceeding with the meeting.
