The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses, said that it welcomes the “vision for the Health Sector” and supports Health Minister Joe Etienne Abela.

The Minister on Saturday had said that Malta should have a second national hospital to meet the needs of the “growing population.”

In a statement on Monday, the MUMN said it has been stressing the importance of having new wards in Mater Dei Hospital because it is “not acceptable to have patients and nurses placed in corridors or in other hospital areas which were never designated as clinical wards.”

The MUMN went on to say that from the beginning of MDH’s conception it had stressed that “capital projects are further needed to elevate the suffering, the lack of human dignity and the degradation one feels when placed in the undesirable areas which must be opened due to lack of space in MDH.”

The Union said “it was a great relief for MUMN to hear that the new Health Minister plans are to open new wards in MDH and utilise Karen Grech Rehabilitation Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital.”

It highlighted that “such capital projects can be launched with the private sector like the new Elderly Hospital which was built in SVP and was a success story.”

As for the Mental Health Services, the renovation of Mt. Carmel Hospital “should be a top priority since Mt. Carmel Hospital when renovated would offer better services than building a mental hospital next to MDH,” the Union said.

The MUMN concluded by saying that it is “eager to work in collaboration with the Health Minister to address issues of Nurses’ shortages and lack of other health professionals such as Social Workers etc., to launch a holistic programme in favour of the patients and the health care professionals.”

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