At around the time the health minister was fired last Friday, I received this email from a consultant specialist at the general hospital
Dear Ms Caruana Galizia,
A ward in St Luke’s Hospital is being opened to add 17 beds. Orders from the minister yesterday in the afternoon with the top administration of Karin Grech Hospital left in the dark. To make matters worse, the top administrators of Karin Grech Hospital are on leave and there is total chaos, since the ward earmarked to accommodate the patients from tomorrow is still being white-washed with no beds and other facilities which are required.
Nurses are to be brought over from the primary health care with health carers being provided by a private contractor.
Not related to the above, and after reading about the press conference by the PN health shadow minister, I have to say that the new patient archive system, also known as CPAS, is total crap. All episodes of patients prior to the 9th December 2013, when there was a switch over from the old to the new system, were lost. ‘Episodes’ means appointments and admissions to hospital.
From the system one could also know whether a patient passed away, because the old system was linked to the central registry. Now a patient of mine who passed away at home 3 weeks ago still shows up on the new system as there is no connection with the public registry. A TOTAL MESS and loss of data.
This is the road map the present government had for health, a total mess.
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Wasn’t the new computerised system one of John Dalli’s contributions to the health service?
The hand of Dalli whose mate was let loose at the hospital is forever present. Is the Labour Party a subsidiary of some other organisation?
Daphne, you had picked on the IT system months ago.
When it had become known about the amateurish vendor that had been selected for the new IT system at the hospital I had immediately commented on this website that it would inevitably turn out to be a disaster.
I’m not happy at all to have been proven right.
The amateurish vendor is Mark Sant.
Hopefully the old system records are still kept on a server somewhere so they can be incorporated into the new system that will replace the crap one.
Jo seems to be looking at the health sector – especially the hospital – like he has done with Enemalta.
He is only looking at the fact that the service is costly on the government finances, and this must explain why he involved Konrad Mizzi.
Jo probably thinks that by engaging the man who privatised Enemalta to the Chinese for Eur 300 million, cutting down its debt (while giving away its ownership), he can do another privatisation of the health services.
Jo is not concerned about the service or the price of health to the patient, or about the organisation of the human resources and professionals working in health. He is more focused on obtaining a better credit rating for government bonds from Standard & Poor, Fitch and Moody’s, while perhaps giving an opportunity to some private operator to take over the business of health.
Jo is not concerned about credit ratings or service quality.
Jo is concerned about Jo. The fewer issues – or, as he puts it, isshhh yoooz – he has to deal with, the better. He doesn’t want to run Malta. He wants to be PM and have lots of lovely headlines, ritratti sbieh, arani ma encounters with famous people, and plenty of opportunities for playground retorts to avenge his school years in nerddom.
Jo is a boy in a man’s job, trailing wreckage behind him and leaving someone else to clean up the mess.
He is exactly like Obama then.
Time to deploy Albert Fenech.
Where to?
Whenever Konrad Mizzi is interviewed, he does that crazy thing with his eyes. I can’t help thinking about Ben’s interview from The Thick Of It – sort of like this: https://vidd.me/bsc
Mizzi’s inspired by the opening scene here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBlB8RAJEEc
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140328/local/new-hospital-it-system-major-flaw-of-this-legislature.512564
The bad smell seems to be coming from China once again.
Sai Mizzi’s husband seems to be the big winner in the reshuffle. How about China getting a share in our health service like they have in Enemalta?
As I write this, I feel like a conspiracy theorist but there are too many indications that this government is being held by the balls. Passports, energy…why not very lucrative health services built around dubious generics made in China?
Or an SPV to fund the health service, 39.99% financed by China.
I am going to do a Jo’s tu quoque retort.
Il-pilloli made in China hudhom int, Jo.
If need be, we will start buying medicine from abroad. If it’s not toothpaste and chocolate, it’s medicine.
These were exactly my thoughts on reading all the posts relevant to this subject.
Frightening is putting it very mildly.
China’s hand in Muscat’s election and post-electoral plans was evident before he became prime minister.
I’m not saying he knew all about it himself. That would assume an intelligence he doesn’t possess.
The first challange for Konrad Mizzi at Mater Dei Hospital is to put the discarded computer system back into service.
There is nothing new in all this. We all know that when there is Labour in government the country turns in shambles. The lack of professionalism in all government lead institutions is appalling.