Please note that Mr Agius Decelis is not a radiographer but an ECG technician !

That’s all right then. It must have been someone else.

In what is Ray Azzopardi qualified in order to be able to carry his duties at the Embassy in Brussels?

Sorry to hear that, both of you. Keep speaking up and educating others of this tyranny lest we repeat it…well, lest we repeat it for more than 5 years.

Sorry to hear that, both of you. Keep speaking up and educating others of this tyranny lest we repeat it…well lest we repeat it for for than 5 years.

Is he dyslexic?

In response to your blog post we would like to make a clarification that Ray Azzopardi was NEVER registered as a radiographer and never worked as one – you can actually confirm this with the Council for Professions Complementary to Medicine (CPCM), who is responsible for the Radiography Register.

From what we have learnt, Mr Azzopardi was actually a member of the ‘Korp tal-Pijunieri’ and from time to time may have assisted in minor maintenance work on some medical devices – but once again would like to point out that he was NOT a radiographer.

Radiographers are not mere technicians as you are trying to imply – and such a grade of radiography technician does not exist locally.

Radiographers are recognised professionals who, after successfully completing a 4 year undergraduate degree course at University, need to seek and obtain state registration and a licence to practice from competent authorities in order to be able to work and practice as radiographers.

In this regard, we would appreciate that you correct the details on your blog accordingly, as we feel it is unfair for the reputation of our profession to suffer as a result of a political ball game being played.

If you agree to such changes we feel that there will be no need to publish this post on your blog.

Kind regards

Jonathan Portelli
President
Society of Medical Radiographers, Malta

[Daphne – Thank you very much for clearing this up by writing in. I will amend the post accordingly and also publish your comment as it is important. However, I do remember that Ray Azzopardi was somehow connected to the radiography department at St Luke’s pre-1987. I knew this through work I did at the time. Yes, you are probably correct in that his work was almost certainly connected to maintenance and not to radiography as such.]

U b’dir-rata daqt ngħidlek żommha … imma sfortunatament lil art twelidi nħobbha u ma ħaqqhiex titmexxa minn dat-tip ta’ imbarazz

My biggest worry is that it will take time for the switchers to realise that they’ve been cheated. It is very hard for any of us to admit that we have been conned. It’s human nature.

I just hope that they will get there in five rather than 10 years. At the rate we’re going, Malta’s exceptional economic performance during the economic crisis is going to go exceptionally wrong, exceptionally fast.

The first?