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Health Minister Chris Fearne insisted on Friday that the equipment at the physiotherapy department was “good” despite complaints by staff that there was not a single working treadmill there. Times of Malta reported earlier this week that the physiotherapPhysio equipment, service very good, Fearne claims
Health Minister Chris Fearne insisted on Friday that the equipment at the physiotherapy department was “good” despite complaints by staff that there was not a single working treadmill there. Times of Malta reported earlier this week that the physiotherapy department, situated at St Luke’s Hospital and run by Steward Health Care, is in such a bad state that staff there struggled to treat their patients. Asked about the situation, Mr Fearne insisted with the newspaper that renovation works at the department were in the pipeline and would start soon. When it was pointed out to him that staff had been promised improvements ever since the US company took over the 30-year government concession to manage three hospitals, Mr Fearne said that the idea behind the PPP was to improve the state of the hospitals. He would not say, however, when such works would start. Mr Fearne also would not say whether he still believed that Steward was “the real thing”, a label he had attributed to the company when it took over from the previous concessionaire, Vitals. On whether he was concerned about the claims by the physiotherapists that they could not provide the best possible service to their... Read more











