St Philip's Hospital deal: Government admitting its failure in health sector - Muscat

Through its behaviour about the St Philip’s Hospital deal, the government is admitting is failure in the health sector, Opposition leader Joseph Muscat said this morning. Speaking in Xghajra, he said that an unequivocal, clear majority in Parliament was telling the government that the lease of St Philips needed to be debated in Parliament with urgency. But rather than listen to what the representatives of the people were saying in the country’s highest institution, GonziPN decided, in the most arrogant manner possible, to go ahead with the contract. Yesterday evening the government announced that the signing of the hospital deal will go ahead and that the agreement for the lease of the hospital has to be signed immediately because of the acute shortage of beds for rehabilitation purposes. Dr Muscat said that this clearly showed the need to modernise the Parliamentary system, noting, that faced with such situations, one could not blame the people for losing their trust in politics. For while Parliamentary approval was needed to give some village club or another an obscure room somewhere, none was needed for the signing of this deal which would cost at least €12 million. Dr Muscat...