TO: The BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Philippine Academy of Medical Specialists Inc.
THRU: The OFFICE of THE SECRETARY GENERAL
Dear Sir/Madam,
A Challenging Day for PAMS
I’m writing this letter to formally file an administrative case against Dr. Rene C. Catan (PAMS National President) and Dr. Nicanor Escutin (PAMS National Treasurer)based on the following charges;
1. Malversation of Fund
a. Funding PAMS Activities without BOT approval
i. Bohol Medical Mission
ii. Bohol CPR Seminar
iii. President’s President Meeting part I
iv. President’s President Meeting part II
v. Other highly funded Presidential Activities
b. Indiscriminate Use of Fund
i. Conducting meetings outside PAMS National Office thereby incurring unnecessary expenses against our coffer. Meetings can be done cost-effectively within our office premise.
ii. Other presidential meetings not reported to the BOT.
2. Betrayal of Trust and Wanton disregard for proper BOT proceedings.
a. Approving funding and other BOT resolutions (October 19, 2007) in a hastily called meeting which were recently defeated motions in previous BOT meeting (October 26, 2007).
i. Approval to release the expenses incurred during the President’s Presidents Meeting part II (October 13, 2007).
ii. Approval to create 3 Academic Compartments.
3. Other Charges Specific Against The President:
a. Deceitful Acts against fellow BOT members:
i. Bohol Mission- Dr. Fresco Yapendon was personally asked by Dr Rene Catan to represent him only to be replaced by Dr. Elmer Punzalan in the last minute without any valid reason or explanation.
ii. Shangri-La Hotel BOT meeting wherein there was no quorum but the president asked for a gentlemen’s agreement not to question the quorum. The BOT present agreed on the presumption that the written agenda were the only issues to be discussed, only to find out later that there was a hidden agenda of proposing a presidential appointee as VP for external affairs who was present in that meeting to cast a self serving vote.
iii. Dencio’s Restaurant - President’s Presidents fellowship night. Dr. Yapendon’s second encounter lies and betrayal
iv. Starbucks Café Metro Walk-Upon the suggestion of the Vice President, to prevent division among the national officers, an emergency meeting with the Execom was called by the President. The President agreed with the decision of the majority which he later denied. Although a member of the Execom, I was not invited in that meeting, but one thing that bothers me is the mess the President had created among our members by leaking the sensitive issues and matters that they have discussed in that meeting, further creating divisiveness within our ranks.
v. Misato Restaurant BOT Meeting wherein an emergency BOT meeting was called by the President without informing us of the agenda only to discuss personal issues that the President himself created. As the presiding officer, he initiated the reading of the complaint letter of Dra. April Punzalan to Dr. Fresco Yapendon. It was an unpleasant and confusing encounter of the BOT with his personality because he acted as the prosecutor, the judge and the executioner.
b. Breach of Mandate and Protocols
i. Creating Highly funded projects without BOT approval
1. Bohol CPR Seminar
2. President’s President Meeting part I
3. President’s President Meeting part II
ii. Disregarding BOT approved resolution
1. No regular Execom meeting to resolve issues supposedly to be conducted every month.
2. No regular BOT meeting supposedly to be conducted every first Saturday of the second month.
3. Failure to create an Ethics Committee to investigate the result of the Execom decision at Metrowalk resulting to further demoralization of the members of the Execom.
c. Discourteous Acts against BOT members
i. Intentionally not inviting BOT and Execom to PAMS major affairs
ii. Calling BOT meetings at his pleasure and not following the regular meetings set by the Board.
***These are just some of the sentiments and complaints of the BOT, it would be a career if I’m going to list all the charges and details; and I don’t want to go into that!
4. Unfolding and Continuing Deceitful Acts:
a. October 19, 2007- The BOT was called for an emergency meeting by the office of the President, only to find out that he prepared a propaganda report to gain the sentiment of the majority of the BOT. I know the president know the reason why he called up that meeting, it was the direct result of the Consultative Meeting of the BOT with the COA done at Goong Restaurant last October 13, 2007 which paved the way for this meeting (Oct.19). In that meeting (Oct. 13) some BOT reported to our COA the above outlined charges and the havoc of disunity it is causing our ranks. As the President of this Organization it is mandatory or imperative upon him to know the basic thrusts of our existence and these are; (in order of priority)
1. UNITY
2. KNOWLEDGE
3. SERVICE
The question of UNITY is always our priority this is why it should supersede any agenda in any BOT meetings. The President betrayed the BOT by prioritizing the propaganda report he have created resulting in improper BOT proceedings.
In our October 19, 2007 BOT meeting, when confronted with the question of how come he is no longer calling a BOT or an Execom Meeting?, our President blurted out “How do you expect me to call a meeting when I know I do not have the mandate of the Board of Trustees !”. Sir/Madam, I hope we understand the implication of his statement and I pray that the President and the Board of Trustees know what to do next.
Malversation of fund is malversation of fund! Betrayal of Trust is Betrayal of Trust! These charges cannot be treated lightly by the Board of Trustees or by the Council of Advisers, otherwise if we proceed as if nothing had happened, the Office of the Presidency will be besieged by the question of the moral authority to lead, and the Board of Trustees will loose the ground of its moral ascendancy to govern in the future.
The Board of Trustees is the highest governing body of our organization, it is the body that elected the President and as such, one of its primary functions is to safeguard the institutions of this organization. This is the collective body elected and entrusted by the General Assembly during the Annual Convention, to run the affairs of the whole organization in the next fiscal year, according to the plans laid by the previous administrations in harmony with the current one. That is the reason why the President created a leadership crisis when he deliberately did not call for the regular BOT meetings, subsequently resulting in miscommunications among BOT members and his office. Our organization is not a one man team and even if he had cohorts in his “PAMS Activities”, they are not the designated team as laid out by our constitution and previous BOT rules. The “Board of Trustees”, from the word itself, signifies that they operate or work under the guise or the presumption that they trust each other. Sir/Madam, THE PRESIDENT HAD BROKEN THAT TRUST!
The Philippine Academy of Medical Specialists Inc. is a 13 year old medical organization and in that period of time a lot of rules, protocols and guidelines were created by the past BOT. The current leadership and its officers should be aware of these rulings and promote it, in order to preserve the legacies created by previous administrations. There are ways and processes to change previous BOT rulings, and it must be practiced properly to show due respect to the previous administrations that created it. We observe and do these things to strengthen our checks and balance and avoid abuse of power otherwise we will produce TYRANTS WITHIN OUR MIDST.
I could write a book on how we should behave based on our history and constitution, for I had 11 years of experience serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of PAMS, but I was not consulted on procedural matters by this administration even though I’m an active BOT and Execom member.
On several times I had given advises on how to do it but my concerns were simply ignored perhaps due to the eagerness of the current leadership to do “something” which the BOT could not comprehend. These are exemplified by highly funded major events created by the Office of the President, without the knowledge of the Board of Trustees!
As one of the major proponent of PAMS Local Chartering (“The Spirit of PAMS Localization”-maiden issue of SPAMS & Messages”), I am deeply saddened by the pattern of events which I perceived to be activities promoting dirty politics into our system. What is worst is my fear that the youngest members and the basic unit of our organization (The newly organized Local Chapters) will be utilized and exposed to this kind of machinations;
a. lies
b. deception
c. use of propaganda
These are weapons used when fighting an enemy and we do not aim these dirty tactics on our “declared under oath” team or comrades especially to the new members of our organization.
One of the concept and vision of our predecessors is to create a decent and respectable organization capable of living up to its reputation as the standard academic recognizing body. If we are to follow the trend being initiated by our current leadership, we will neither be decent nor respectable as an organization.
I always quote Winston Churchill “The kingdom of the future is an empire of the mind”, because I always envision PAMS to be that kingdom that would lead our society into the future. If we are going to copy the ways and mind of our dirty politicians and inject it into our system, I think we will go nowhere much more we wont have any future.
Lastly, I would like to request the current Board of Trustees to create an impartial quasi judicial body that would conduct investigation based on the above allegations and other abuses (done/being done) by the President.
Yours Truly,
William Bulado Dy, FPAMS
C/F: COA (Council of Advisers formerly known as Council of Elders)
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