The Malta Union of Nurses complained today over the way how the Health Department had deployed newly-recruited nurses.

It said it had been the practice for new nurses to replace nurses who requested new postings, but this practice had been ignored and the nurses who requested new postings had therefore not been transferred.

This development, it said, discouraged the nurses and could encourage some of them to leave.

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