The Government said today that the number of operations performed at Mater Dei Hospital during the month of November 2011 were 4,022 operations. Of these 3,489 (87%) were scheduled operations while 533 (13%) had emergency proceedures. This was an increase of 128 operations on November 2010-
The Minister for Health, the Elderly and Community Care, Joe Cassar said that “this is another positive result, achieved thanks to collective work by all those involved.” He said that between the beginning of January 2011 and the end of November 2011, a total of 40,511 operations were carried out.
The Minister said that the Government’s efforts to reduce waiting time for surgery is now paying off and in fact, in the last twelve months of St Luke’s Hospital 32764 operations had been been carried out.