Worker suspended for three days for serious negligence
An employee at St Vincent de Paule Home was suspended for three days on half pay for serious negligence and arrogant behaviour, Social Policy Minister John Dalli said today.
He said an inquiry was held after report last year that an 81-year-old woman who died at the home had been placed on a wooden table in the home's mortuary, with her head resting on a water can.
The minister was replying to a parliamentary question by Joe Mizzi.
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simon cutajar
Nov 25th 2009, 18:11
Pajjiz tal - mickey mouse !
Estelle Inguanez
Nov 25th 2009, 12:16
Why should such an employee be paid whilst being suspended???? Might as well work for half days then!!
Adrian Grech Cumbo
Nov 25th 2009, 10:05
My Mother passed away last August 13, 2009 at same St Vincent De Paul. She too was placed under a petrol Tank. Disgusting and disgraceful ! I reported the matter and all I got was an acknowledgment. Time was against me as I would not have accepted the situation. Dear Mr Minster get your acts done as I am sure you would not want to see any of your family members being placed under a water or petrol tank.
M. Piscopo
Nov 24th 2009, 21:19
To add insult to injury, he got 3 days off AND was paid for one and a half days.
Karl Abela
Nov 24th 2009, 09:26
As already mentioned by someone else, had it happened in the private sector the employee would have been dismissed there and then, but at least we are starting to see some 'form' of disciplinary actions in the public sector...had it been just a transfer to another department is like tkisser knisja biex tibni ohra.
Christine Vella
Nov 24th 2009, 08:33
No respect for the dead, can you imagine how much they respect the living? Two years ago, I was visiting a dining area in the same hospital and what I saw on that day still haunts me. The carers brought in pieces of Maltese bread with butter, they were not sliced but cut in a manner that indicates "I couldn't care less", displayed on a dish in a heap, honestly in a heap. They put them on the table and the patients jumped on them. Those who didn't make it in time because they were not healthy enough were left without any. But what disgusted me most was that the three workers started smoking in the dining area. Now I am not a person who usually does not report something like this. However, this time I realised how vunerable these patients are and I did not want the person I was visiting to be badly handled because of me. This is the first time I am making this public, but please whoever is responsible do something about it you are being paid to take care of these vunerable people.
Karen Bellotti
Nov 24th 2009, 06:00
I am not surprised at all that this employee got only 3 days half pay. My father was beaten at St.Vincent de Paule and the same employee who did the act still works there. He was just transferred to another ward!!!!
Jason Zammit
Nov 23rd 2009, 21:38
You know what's the SADDEST part of all this. Had this guy been let's caught with a marijuana joint in his possession, he would have been sacked - flat out fired! Yet the callous handling of a body like this goes practically unpunished? 3 days on HALF-PAY? Christ, that's a holiday where I come from! Wake up GOVERNMENT, wake the $%#& up.
Eric Gahn
Nov 23rd 2009, 19:41
I agree with Stefan Agius below.
Gina Hall
Nov 23rd 2009, 19:40
I can sincerely say that the staff at St. Francis 5 & 6 take very good care of my mother and I am very satisfied with the way they take care of her prosit Joe Grixti and all the staff that work with him. I feel for the family to see someone they love laid to rest in such a manner. However one only has to look at people in other professions where they just go to work for the money which is such a shame. I do feel that this person should be dismissed as they could do it again.
c. camilleri
Nov 23rd 2009, 19:28
Had this employee been in the private sector he would been justly discharged. This is the difference between one working with the private sector and one working with the Govt. As the saying goes ' Govt's employees can get away with murder" Do any one call this a punishment?
Stephen Florian
Nov 23rd 2009, 19:20
Does San Vincenz de Pauli have decent and up-to-standard morgue facilities...? Are they inspected regularly ? I once saw a very gloomy and sad environment when I went to pay my last respects to a departed friend in another hospital in Floriana. It is time we had a decent Tanatorium practice on the islands. We should be rendering homage in dignity and practising it in style and sobriety. Somehow, Maltese society manages these final moments badly.Even our departed beloved pets deserve better, let alone our dear departed!
Brian Farrugia
Nov 23rd 2009, 19:00
Suspension ? Transfer across the road to the Goverment Farm would be more suitable.....!
D Vella
Nov 23rd 2009, 18:48
Three days???. Surely such misbehaviour deserves suspension not reinstatement at the same place .If this worker was working for a private company he would have been sacked.
g.c.Forte
Nov 23rd 2009, 18:45
A transfer to another department would have been more propriety. I want to imagine what will happen if some body loses one of his family and when seeing the way this employee acted, I am sure that the story might have had a different ending.
Stefan Agius
Nov 23rd 2009, 18:43
I guess education rather than suspension is needed here!
Franco Farrugia
Nov 23rd 2009, 18:29
My goodness, how disgusting! Would this employee have wanted to see any of his kin in that manner? How absolutely disgusting.