Press reports today: 29-year-old failed Labour candidate, a lawyer, put in charge of Mount Carmel Psychiatric Hospital
On 27 August, I broke the news that this would happen, and I broke it as fact, having had inside information that it had been arranged already.
I reported that Mount Carmel Hospital CEO Dolores Gauci, who is trained and highly experienced in psychiatric care management, and who had only fairly recently been brought on board, would be replaced by a lawyer and failed Labour electoral candidate, 29, called Clifton Grima, sometime mayor of Msida, who has no experience in healthcare, psychiatric care management or any kind of operations management. His basic salary would be Eur65,000.
That was in August. Some of the press picked it up, but they would not pick it up as fact, because it had appeared first on this website, and we can’t have that, can we – so they went to the health minister and other health authorities for confirmation, and were stonewalled. They then reported the stonewalling and left it at that.
The Opposition wasn’t much use either, but now that parliament has gone into full swing and the replacement of Ms Gauci with a 29-year-old know-nothing party favourite has actually taken place, perhaps they will grill the health minister about it. But of course, it’s too late. Malta’s only psychiatric hospital is in the hands of a 29-year-old party favourite with a degree in Maltese law.
Everybody then let go of the story with the inevitable result that the decision was left unchallenged and has now been perpetrated. Times of Malta reports this morning that yes, Dolores Gauci has been replaced by Clifton Grima.
My report on Clifton Grima replacing Dolores Gauci, uploaded on 27 August
Times of Malta’s report this morning
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aItpjF5vXc
This country is getting closer to a totalitarian state. You either openly support the regime, or you get relegated to some office.
What a horrible thought that there are still four and a half years to go.
They’re shameless.
The former CEO doesn’t look too disappointed though.
Don’t ask Joseph Muscat about this, because he will just state that this case is closed. HNIZRIJIET BISS.
All the Labour ministers are going to be very jealous of Clifton Grima. a 29 year old who will be earning Eur65,000.
Marlene Farrugia must be so angry that she or her hubby didn’t get this post. It would have been easier and more profitable.
Times of Malta has begun to pale in comparison to this website.
But hey, they managed to get a TV programme after all, so wasn’t it wertit?
“Have begun to pale” you say? Times of Malta has been obliterated by this website. Unless you consult it for its Births and Deaths Section, that is.
Literalment tal-genn.
“Ms Gauci has remained within the senior management of the mental health service and has been given the prima donna role in community mental health care as a COO,” he (Dr Farrugia ) said.
I think the minister should know that prima donna is actually an insult.
As in has been demoted from CEO to COO, but she’s a woman, so what can she expect.
I wonder what all the switchers who consider themselves worthy of succeeding Ms Gauci think now? I am sure that a lawyer is the best person to have deep insight into illness, including mental illness, and the ethical and moral issues it raises. I am sure a 29-year-old lawyer is the best person to manage a mental hospital.
I am also sure that a lawyer is fully able to participate in discussions with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses, otherwise what could the GP who suddenly found himself minister be thinking?
Do you think that they are looking at the roadmap bottom side up? Please do not advise me to pinch myself to wake up from the nightmare, I am black and blue all over already.
Please note that the COO before Clifton (that is before this past week), who has over 12 years of experience in the mental health sector and had been single-handedly running the hospital for over a year, before Ms. Gauci took over as CEO, got transferred to Boffa as COO there.