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00:21Tutor is calling on the Ministry of Finance and Unimed to come clean on the
00:26state of affairs at the private medical insurance provider. According to Tutor
00:30teachers have been awaiting payout for claims some of them in excess of one
00:34year and the association further claims the company is owing policyholders in
00:38excess of 30 million dollars. We have been struggling for the last year or so
00:45with the Unimed plan in regards to the payment of claims when persons would
00:52have sent in usually it should take about four to six weeks at present it's
00:58taking 13 months so there have been incremental increase in the time frame
01:05to which our members would get back their claims and we are well informed
01:12because Tutor is part of the management committee that it's because the plan is
01:17in the red there's a deficit at this time and you're talking about tens of
01:21millions of dollars. Tutor says the personnel department along with the
01:27Ministry of Finance commissioned an audit into Unimed the findings of which
01:31now lie with the minister however Tutor says it has not been apprised of the
01:36findings. We did ask for a copy of the audit especially being part of the
01:42Unimed management committee we were told quite frankly and blatantly that
01:49audit does not concern us at this time it was done by the personnel department
01:55the CPO and the Minister of Finance and they will deal with the
02:00contents of the audit. We are not aware of the contents of the of that audit
02:06however we are strongly recommending that the contents be applied the
02:15recommendations be applied as soon as possible we have our members suffering
02:20they are playing with the lives of our members. TV6 News reached out to
02:25Unimed however we were unable to get a response. Tutor is also calling on the
02:31government to put its money where its mouth is if it truly believes that the
02:35children are the future. President Martin Lumpkin says with schools due to reopen
02:40in two weeks many schools are still in need of repairs. When it comes to the
02:46important aspects of education they cannot find the funding for it what
02:52about the Heritage and Stabilization Fund can you draw down from it in order
02:57to improve the education sector we have boldly said that education is so
03:03important that it requires that level of funding and we believe that the general
03:10public will have no difficulty if the government does such
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