Serquhomlu.

What the minister does not realize is that A&E does not require more staff but Mater Dei Hospital requires more beds to clear out the backlog of patients blocking the corridors.

Another thing: does this minister and anyone involved in transfers to Boffa Hospital, not realize that oncology nursing is a specialty and not everyone is suited or willing to work there?

This happened with the previous administration as well about 18 months ago and caused a few problems to say the least.

She gives her all to the patients and her fellow colleagues, she goes out of her way to help anyone – is it possible that no other department requires her services at Mater Dei or are all the staff, consultants and administrators included worried that if they voice support for Frances they will be in someone’s black book?

Well if the latter is true than we are in for a hefty rough time till at least the next election.

I guess you can say that if “Joseph didn’t know about it” the first time, he certainly knew about it the second time round.

Ms.Valerie Borg must have grasped the clearer full picture now.

Well done to her for standing up for what is right and exposing what is wrong.

The employer “should have known better” both in the initial case and in the repeated case required to establish harassment.

This is where the laws should be revised.

They are far too lenient and the onus on the employee who goes through the ordeal places far too many conditions on that employee at the time that the employee is already suffering the unnecessary consequences of that harassment.

Going to court about the matter only places more of the burden on the employee and possibly puts that employee’s life on hold for the amount of time required to sort out the matter. In Malta this can take years.

Why isn’t there a more serious and specialised approach to such matters by both the Police and the legal system?

One serious complaint ought to be enough for proper, not waffly – as is current, action to be taken against any and all of the persons involved.

Many nurses are brilliant in certain areas but find it horribly difficult to work in others. Nurses are not robots, their capabilities are based on coursework, nursing experience, further education, personal aptitudes and life experiences. I sure wish that every single commentator were made to work a day in the shoes of a good nurse, assessing the needs and doing what is required of the nurse daily – attempting to make the patient whole or as whole as is possible in the circumstances of his health. Can anyone work with a dementia patient for example – of course not, can anyone work in oncology?

The ignorance of anyone who treats a nurse as a pair of hands is simply fueling the fire which will burn them or their ilk when they are nursed by someone who is ‘just a pair of hands’.

Those who think that nurses should just get with it when they know that optimal practice can be compromised, provided that they get within a foot of a book, should perhaps read Sandy Summers’s arguments on why this portrayal of nursing is putting lives at risk!!

That was all ‘biki ta kukkudrill’

That is only his feeble excuse. Does it mean that even Ms Valerie Borg does not want her? Then why on earth did she write the letter for. Liars just plain simple liars the whole lot. Joseph and all his puppets have been lying through their teeth. What a shameful government.