The Labour Party has criticised the government for not giving free Herceptin to cancer patients when the cancer reoccurred.

Party deputy leader Anglu Farrugia said the government had been right to start giving Herceptin for free to those breast cancer patients who needed it.

But now the party had discovered that those women who had a reappearance of the cancer were having to pay for this medicine.

This was happening at a time when public funds were being squandered and there were unprecedented allegations of corruption.

Dr Farrugia said there was no excuse for such a reduction of the quality of life of these people.

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