“As a result of recent overtures made by the Government about increases in the opening of public health care to the private sector,” Zminijietna – Voice of the Left said that it is very concerned by the direction that national strategy in the health sector is taking, and believes that the Government should act to prevent any more corporatisation of health care on the Islands.”

In light of this, Zminijietna has stated that “any new involvement of the private sector in health care will lead to an increasing corporatisation of the Maltese health sector, to the detriment of the public, health care workers, and the universal availability of State health care services.”

“The use of a public-private partnership model will result in the health care industry becoming an industry of simple profit and loss, reducing the quality of service given and its overall sustainability,” it said.

Zminijietna added, “various studies have shown that market directed policies do not necessarily reduce costs in, or improve, health care services, and such policies in the United Kingdom have led to an overall neglect of patient well-being.”

“The changes being proposed are more in line with the motivations of politically influential minority interests and strategists, following the increasingly right-wing and neo-liberal direction being taken by the European Union, than they are with a genuine concern for the welfare of patients,” concluded Zminijietna – Voice of the Left.

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