The Malta Union for Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) has appealed for the intervention of Prime Minister Robert Abela “to stop human suffering.”

The MUMN said in a statement that it is “protesting on the approach being used by the Superintendent of Public Health Dr. Charmaine Gauci, that persons who live in Malta are being forced to quarantine in a hotel.”

It argued that such a measure is clearly evident that this is not a Covid measure “but a punishment for going abroad to a red zone country.”

“Covid measures of this type are not acceptable since there are constrains in one’s life that travel is not always for pleasure,” the union said. “Not to mention that even persons with special needs were not exempt from such punishment which shows how insensitive the authorities has become.”

They stressed that “what is even worse, is that although they pay €100 daily, the service in these hotels is far from acceptable.”

The MUMN state that it had to intervene when a nurse “was locked in one of these hotel rooms for two weeks with his wife and small daughter, without internet and without food. While a simple request to warm some milk, which had been bought by him for his daughter, took two hours to be delivered to his room.”

The union said that “these measures bring shame on this country and MUMN supports our members and their families and appeals to the Prime Minister to change the legal notice allowing all those who have a residence to quarantine at home.”

MUMN concluded by saying that it is also informed that “currently nursing agencies that bring nurses from abroad to work are finding great difficulties in doing so because of this measure.”

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