ADPD-The Green Party Chairperson Carmel Cacopardo said the government must unequivocally consider the best possible position for the state in taking back the hospital facilities as part of the process of their proper management for the benefit of the public following Steward Malta’s announcement this morning.

Cacopardo insisted that the government must explain in “very clear terms how it intends to ensure that we are made whole on the loss suffered over these years.”

“Steward is blaming the government, that is us, for its inability to deliver on its promises,” he said. “The issue remains that millions were paid to Vitals and then Steward with very little or nothing to show for. The case remains very much open.”

In light of the recent court judgement labelling the agreements with Vitals and SHCI as “fraudulent and potentially corrupt,” ADPD called on the government to “immediately publish the full unredacted copy of the original Vitals contract and any further appendices and/or side agreements with both Vitals and Steward without the heavy redaction with which it was presented to parliament by ex-health Minister Konrad Mizzi.”

“The failure to do so carries a host of undesirable implications against the government, which may include collusion with Steward, fear of sensitive and incriminating evidence being made public by Steward or lack of political will due to incompetence by the prime minister and his health minister deputy,” concluded Cacopardo.

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