MUMN eases directive on distribution of medicine at Mt Carmel Hospital
The Health Ministry said today that it welcomed a decision by the MUMN to amend its directive to nurses on the distribution of medicines to patients at Mt Carmel Hospital.
In its original directives, the MUMN had told the nurses not to collect medicines from the hospital pharmacy, and not to give the patients any medicines brought to the wards by other people, leaving it up to the management to find other nurses to do so.
However the union has now told its members that while they should not pick up medicines from the hospital pharmacy, they should administer the medicines brought to their wards, independently of who brings them.
The ministry said last week that the original directive could undermine patient safety.
In its statement today, the ministry said it was still calling on the union to lift all industrial action which was detrimental to patients, including the directive to nurses not to collect dangerous medicines from the hospital pharmacy.
Legislation, as well as internal policies regulated the distribution of medicine and methadone and laid down that no one other than nurses could collect and distribute them, the ministry said.
The ministry said it had also written to the European Federation of Nurses, inviting its general secretary to come to Malta to verify the facts in the current dispute.
The MUMN said yesterday that it enjoyed the backing of the federation.
The ministry said, however, that information which the federation appeared to have was mistaken.
It expressed particular concern at a statement by the federation that the recruitment of nurses from Pakistan was not an ethical, professional, economic and political solution. The ministry explained that Malta had never restricted the recruitment of nurses to those from Pakistan and never mentioned that country.
The call for nurses, the ministry said, was open to nurses from all countries, including those in the EU.
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m.zammit
Sep 15th 2010, 13:20
@Martin Buttigieg, tghix bit-tama u tmut bil-piena.
L.Farrugia
Sep 15th 2010, 11:51
@M. Buttigieg, bi kliemet tista tnaffar liz-zaghzagh maltin biex ma japplikawx ghal dawn il-korsijiet. Nappellalek sabiex ma tinfaxxax rasek qabel taqsama ghax taf ikollok bzonn nurse u ma jsibiex
Martin Buttigieg
Sep 15th 2010, 07:55
Nisperaw mhux ser ingibu nurses minn barra l-pajjiz u dawk Maltin jispiccaw jirregistraw ghax xoghol. Ghax ghal dan il-Gvern tinsewx kollox hu possibli. Prova ohra ta Gvern inkompetenti fejn f'daqqa wahda ser ittih rasu ghax inqabad bla Nurses, sakemm din mhux xi pjan iehor mohbi, min jaf, ibzax iz-zmien ghad jurina l-verita'.
m.farrugia
Sep 15th 2010, 04:40
Sur Bezzina l-Inglizi ukoll ghandhom problemi kbar sabiex isibu nurses jahdmu fl-isptarijiet taghhom, dan minkejja li jofru salarji ahjar min ta' Malta, għalkemm meta wiehed iqabbel il-hajja ta kuljum fl-Ingilterra ma dik ta Malta isib li ma hemmx differenzi kbar f'dak li jibqalu l-haddiem. Il-problema hija li hafna huma dawk li ma jridu jidhlu f'dan is-settur ta' xoghol. L-Ingilterra li semmejt inti ta spiss toħrog applikazzjonijiet ghal nurses minn pajjizi oħra, u bhal fil-kaz ta Malta japplikaw dawk minn l-India u l-Pakistan u mhux mill-afrika.
Claire Busuttil
Sep 14th 2010, 19:57
povri pazjenti.....hadd ma qed jaqbez ghalijhom!
M.Bezzina
Sep 14th 2010, 19:36
The call for nurses, the ministry said, was open to nurses from all countries, including those in the EU. Min tridu jigi jahdem hawn Malta bhala nurse bil paga meta komparata ma ta barra qas tibda!!Mux ovvja li nurses mill Afrika jew mill balkani jistghu jigu!!lanqas l italia ghax ukoll imhallsin ahjar min haw!!Tghid mhux se jigu l inglizi jew skandinavi hawnhekk!!
John Micallef
Sep 14th 2010, 21:30
Int ghandek ragun habib, imma lanqas trid tabbuza min nurses u tuzha il- pazjenti bhala sarima ghalihom.
Xi hadd jimagina li fis- sena 2010 MTCarmel bla generator per ezempju?? Ghax nahseb kieku ghamel referendum jekk jixtrix dan il- ganerator jew isebbah pjazza San Gorg ir-risposta kienet tkun ovja.
Bhal ma dejjem ghedt, prioitising mhux fil vokabularju taghna, u dan li gab il- pajjiz fl-gie.
Semmi li trid!
@ M Bezzina.
Ara jgibx ir-russi jew il- Fillipini!!?? L-ahhar li kont imsiefer kelli immur fi sptar, kieku ma zammix it-tabib ferita bl-ilma kient ha tnadafili! Biex ma nghidlikx li kellu juriha it-tabib kik.
BTW fertia fejn lanqas joqghod pont me kient ta, ahseb u ara......
MBorg
Sep 14th 2010, 18:02
So why had the Union denied that it had instructed its nurses not to administer medicine when this was collected from the wards by private nurses ? It seems that they were at fault all along.
Charles Zammit
Sep 14th 2010, 17:42
Some common sense on the part of MUMN at last!! Time and again the leadership of this union suffers from inept managment it seems.