Update 2 - Union anger as foreign nurses turn up at Mater Dei corridors - Government reacts

Updated - see government reaction below  - A group of newly-recruited foreign nurses, mostly Spaniards, has started working in the corridors of Mater Dei Hospital, raising concerns by the MUMN which had ordered its members not to work in corridors which lack facilities and privacy. Union president Paul Pace said that instead of listening to the MUMN’s concerns, that led to the directives, the government was acting as a strike breaker to the detriment of patients. The corridors have no facilities, and the patients, some of whom are on stretchers, have no privacy at all. By placing foreign nurses in these corridors, the situation had become worse for the critically-ill patients as they had to deal with a language barrier while the nurses had no experience working in corridors at Mater Dei Hospital, Mr Pace added. With Mater Dei Hospital chock-a-bloc, 20 patients were this week accommodated in the imaging corridor and 18 others in the paediatric corridor. Patients were placed in these corridors after being seen by doctors at the emergency department. Mr Pace said the union was not worried that the nurses were foreign, as it did not doubt their professionalism, but it was concerned...