Well, it’s not funny. The government was very badly advised on this issue, by people who had vast vested interests.

You know, same old Malta story (jaqq x’pajjiz mizerabbli). We may have top medicos, but our public health management system is a complete shambles. Ever visited Gozo General Hospital?

I have just spent an age explaining this sad episode but could not explain why the wound has been allowed to fester.

I would have appreciated an explanation, a money problem reason is problematical due to the large fee paid for a new parliament.

I mean faster turnaround, not increased turnovers. Multitasking. Sorry.

And yet, the Nationalist government still managed to increase bed availablity across the health service.

It opened up additional wards within the MDH precincts. I suppose MDH has more than 900 beds now.

It also re-opened Karen Grech Hospital as a geriatric and rehabilitation facility. That’s an extra 200 beds.

It transformed Zammit Clapp into a nursing home and built more wards at Saint Vincent de Paule.

And a new oncology hospital is under way, with a much larger bed capacity than Sir Paul Boffa Hospital.

The problem is in the people’s mentality, and Labour’s manipulation of it.

Public-private partnerships, or as JosephMuscat.com will have it, private-public partnerships.

Guess why the emergency department is stretched.

It may very well be the only hospital in Europe that offers ALL specialist services (and not just the general medicine and surgery you get in hospitals on the continent with the same catchment population) with a 24/7 availability and for free.

It also serves a training ground for hundreds of students in medicine, nursing and other allied health professions every year.

The number of elective procedures has been increasing year on year, despite the huge number of cases dealt with at A+E and the subsequent urgent admissions.

Il-veru poplu imfissed.

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