I'm sure everyone knows about the recent NKF scandal that rages everyone. I was quite disappointed at NKF myself. I mean, even though I know they are not exactly that ideally charitable (since I worked there for the internship), I didn't know that they are so horribly non-charitable!

I just read somewhere that only a miserable 55% of the fund they receive goes to the patients. The rest goes to the operational costs, including the CEO's huge salary! This is laughable compared to the 95% of the American Kidney Fund (AKF) which has similar revenues as the NKF!

He's very arrogant for one and he sure is cunning! He will use different sorts of cunning ways to sack staffs that he no longer want to keep! He conducts "training sessions" every monday and saturday and through these sessions, he will teach staffs how to use ways and methods to make people part with their money! All the staff have to attend his training and I even remember one incident when he gave an account of how he made the CEO of BelAir to donate a huge sum of money to them. He was damn proud of his cunning method and encouraged everyone to learn from him! NKF also has these medic vans that are suppose to transport the patients.

BUT

As a GP student, we must balance our view points. There is something made me feel more disgusted.

Read from the newspaper, there was one guy (uncle), chiong to the NKF building to ask for his refunds for the two charity calls that he has made (1900-112-6868), $12, once he heard the NKF incident. He annoyed me, not because he calimed his money back; he annoyed me, because he only make ONE call, not TWO call. what's the difference between HE and the NKF's CEO then? since both parties are "cheating" money for their own good. diaoz~ (chen huo da jie)