That rather misses the point, doesn’t it? The problem was not the car, but that it was parked in the wrong place.

These magisterial and internal departmental investigations are assuming the character of unfunny jokes, exercises in whitewashing and sweeping the dirt under the carpet.

A patient is never transferred to Malta to die, is he. Logic, ethics and proper use of health resources tell you that a patient is only transferred if the place he is to be transferred to is deemed able to give some sort of advantage to the patient.

Otherwise why risk the lives of everyone on the flight, the chopper and spend the money for fuel etc. while making end of life so much more traumatic for the patient and family. Being transferred into a vehicle then chopper and another vehicle is not exactly what we see on Grey’s you know, risks multiply.

If the Ministry of health states that patients who will not benefit at all are still transferred to Malta then we should all accuse them of misusing our taxes and putting crew lives at risk unnecessarily.

There are innumerable ways to issue statements about this without really giving useful information. Was this a thrombolitic stroke or a haemorrhagic stroke. What intervention, all of which are time sensitive, was planned or where there still more investigations to be done in Malta. Is an MRI available in Gozo for example?

Heads should roll but they are firmly attached to bodies with a huge sense of entitlement. Many people’s middle name has become ‘gode l’immunità’.

You’re sounding negative! Joey doesn’t like you.

door-stepped (side-step means to avoid)

They never have regularly. Through the years both governments came up with colorful excuses but the real reason is poor location. Even the lightest of winds is deflected by the neighboring buildings into swirls and eddies (imagine a river flowing around stones) which often makes landing hazardous.

This is protocol after all, say, in cases of bad weather when the helipad cannot be used. It takes around 13 minutes to get to Luqa from St Luke’s in an ambulance with a siren on.

As usual, official Ministry communication is ambiguous or misleading at best. This incident, in reality, reflects the level of mediocrity and amateurism that permeates across health Ministry senior leadership.

The purge is now complete, with all competent leaders since removed or made to resign, replaced with lacking Taghna Lkollers some unqualified and all inexperienced.

The result of the Mizzi-Fearne purge is a series of blunders, more than people know about.

But more about this some other time. Alas, the opposition is totally ineffective in its criticism, with the PN spokesman for health more interested in pursuing silly and self gratifying initiatives.

There is probably more to the ‘helipad’ story because the devil is in the detail. What is certain is that under Labour anything goes.