The nurses’ union has once again called on the government to honour its promise, made nine months ago, and install a power generator at Mount Carmel Hospital in Attard.

A power cut yesterday caused nurses and patients at the hospital to suffer from “extreme heat” in this hot weather and this was detrimental to their health and safety, according to Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses, president Paul Pace.

The government said last September that it would install the generator at the mental hospital after the union directed nurses there to walk out of the wards if there was a power failure.

Last week, when the union raised the issue again, a spokesman for the Community Care Parliamentary Secretariat explained that the authorities were working on installing generators.

There were two options in terms of installation, one of which was cheaper and more efficient. Enemalta workers were carrying out tests to ensure the power supply at the hospital, that comes from two points, could be centralised into one point for the more efficient system to be installed. The tests were to be concluded by the end of the month, the spokesman said.