GEMS defends multimillion-rand vitamin contract as regulator initiates probe

  • 📰 BDliveSA
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 24 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 13%
  • Publisher: 63%

Health Health Headlines News

Questions raised as the companies involved in sourcing and providing the supplements are both units of Afrocentric

SA’s biggest medical scheme for public servants has defended its decision to award Afrocentric subsidiary Activo Health a multimillion-rand contract to provide its members with multivitamins, saying it was responding to their demands for immune boosters to fend off Covid-19.

The justification by the Government Employees Medical Scheme follows an announcement earlier on Tuesday by the industry regulator, the Council for Medical Schemes, that it had started a Section 43 enquiry into the matter...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

'Immune system boosters against convid19' 🤔😹😹😹😹😹

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 12. in HEALTH

Health Health Latest News, Health Health Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Medical schemes regulator launches enquiry into GEMSThe inquiry comes after reports that the medical scheme allegedly awarded a contract to Activo Health to provide its members with vitamins CoruscaKhaya 👀
Source: BDliveSA - 🏆 12. / 63 Read more »

Medical schemes regulator launches enquiry into GEMSThe inquiry comes after reports that the medical scheme allegedly awarded a contract to Activo Health to provide its members with vitamins CoruscaKhaya 👀
Source: BDliveSA - 🏆 12. / 63 Read more »