MUMN action in solidarity with students not accepted for university course

Industrial action is being taken by the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses in solidarity with more than 100 young people who obtained the necessary qualifications to embark on a nursing course but were not accepted.

The MUMN said that although the Health Ministry said there were more than 540 vacancies in the health sector, the government was still excluding young people from taking this course. Only 44 had graduated in nursing this year.

It said it would never accept a situation where, in spite of the shortage, the government was more interested in protecting the university’s autonomy than the country’s real needs.

The union appealed to the young people who had not been accepted to contact it on e-mail: mumn@maltanet.net as a meeting was to be organised to decide what steps could be taken.