Health centres opening hours extended

P Caruana

Mar 5th, 10:20

About time, a few days before Election Day.

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE !!!!!!

Gonzi PN gimmicks.

R. Lewis

Mar 5th, 09:59

Dr Gonzi re-inaugurated the Mosta health Centre yesterday, meaning that as from today it should be open for the public.But it is not the case, as tomorrow people who have an appointment to go for a simple blood test, still have to go to B'Kara, so this is all election bluff. Its amazing that what hasn't been done in the last 5 years, is being done in the last 5 weeks. We need a yearly election.

K CASSAR

Mar 5th, 00:46

After all these years in government it's about time that the polyclinics get the attention they deseve. Maybe Dr. Cassar was inspired by Dr. Muscat! Question is, are they for real? Will they be efficient? If we have to wait hours will we be asked to go elsewhere as with MD? Is it a pre election gimmick that will vanish to nowhere like so many other things before?????

Julian Grech

Mar 4th, 17:23

ejja fl-ahhar l-gvern sema' wahda mil-karba tal-poplu- jew u turn din wara li semghu bl-ispeech ta d r.muscat l-bierah?

M Grima

Mar 4th, 16:42

Can the minister give us a guarantee that the Mosta health centre is fully operational. My guess is that these last minute projects are just some ribbon cutting stage managed events to alienate the electorate.

M Grima

Mar 4th, 16:37

And what do you call these type of gimmicks on the eve of an election Dr. Gonzi? Your government was responsible for the inefficiency at the emergency department at Mater Dei just because you abandoned these health centers. But to score some cheap brownie points your strategic advisors told you to extend the opening hours!!!

Peppi Borg

Mar 4th, 16:14

A nice dream to have operations done at health centres but who will perform them? Another total failure for Gonzipn on the list- primary health care.

Peppi Borg

Mar 4th, 16:13

Who were the ones who reduced the hours of opening for health centres? Wasn't it Gonzipn. Now on the eve of election they come up with this gimmick. Too little too late! Are we admitting mater Dei Failure?

John Zammit

Mar 4th, 15:32

Hope this is not another political gimmick and after the election it will be reversed

Louis Craus

Mar 4th, 15:27

L-ewwel kissru l- Health Centres ...ghax ghamilhom Gvern Laburista, u b'hekk zdiedet il- pressjoni fuq Mater Dei,u aktar qabel St. Luke's,issa gew darhom mal- hajt,u qed jirrangaw / iraqqu il- pannu bil- Qara .ahmar.
Troppo tardi .

J Scicluna

Mar 4th, 15:22

Stationers are out of scissors....kulhadd jixtri biex jaqta z-zigarelli!!!!!

Malcolm Farrugia

Mar 4th, 15:18

I'm in favour of extended hours and more services in all health centres, however this news smells a bit fishy when consecutive Pn administrations nearly dismantled thses centres (poly clinics). Is this the usual tit bit before heading to the polls?

carmelo buttigieg

Mar 4th, 15:16

Kellha bzonn issir elezzjoni kull gimgha sur PM

M. Baron

Mar 4th, 15:15

WOW three more hours of service at Health Care... This will come as a relief to those dying on stretchers in corridors, like animals, in our state of the .art hospital as if the country was hit by some earthquake or tidal wave. Indeed now that the hospital is choc-a-bloc, what would happen should there be a catacasm like the aforementioned? Or some epidemic?

Maria Borg

Mar 4th, 15:11

Its interesting to upgrade the service on the eve of election ... However on the 9th March, I will not forget that even at 10 in the morning I had to to wait 3 hours for a doctor at the Health Centre ! How can we forget that the health service during the past 5 years deteriorated ?! Gonzi PN had enough time to effect change. This will be one of the good reasons to vote for a change in government

Joseph Attard

Mar 4th, 15:02

L-ewwel ilhom is-snin jagħlqu kmieni, issa għax waslet l-elezzjoni tawwlilhom ftit il-ħin ( u xorta mhux 24 siegħa) u qisu għamlilna xi pjaċir u jrid il-grazzi
. Tard wisq!

J Cauchi

Mar 4th, 14:59

Late again. Can't believe they think we are so stupid , they did not do this in 5 years now then do it the week of elections.

HERMANN PAUL FARRUGIA

Mar 4th, 14:53

The Ministry of Health has managed to reduce the Brain-drain of freshly qualified medics & Health professionals that used to leave our health service in order to undertake most specialisation courses abroad.Mr Axisa,look up the statistics:Government has now secured harmonised Post-grad teaching programmes that have kept our brilliant young doctors serving our Nation.Now regional centres function!

G. Bugeja

Mar 4th, 14:51

Now it's too late. This policy called' incumbency' has no effect any longer. I believe it works to the contrary. The worst PN electoral campaign ever.

Paul Ostafiehyk

Mar 4th, 14:37

I assume this is to cater for the number of PN supporters who will required medication after the election?

M Mercieca

Mar 4th, 14:24

How convenient, in the week of the elections!

J. Camilleri

Mar 4th, 14:19

Kif certificat ta sick jistaw jghamluh sa nofs in nhar biss. Trid min iwasslek jekk ma tkunx tiflah, taghmel aktar sens tmur wara hin ix xoghol...

Noel Cini

Mar 4th, 14:11

Impeccable timing... Five years and very little happens and then just days before election all projects come to conclusion. Excellent time management or electoral gimmickry? You decide.

M Formosa

Mar 4th, 14:00

How about opening a new health center for St Pauls Bay, Mellieha etc., residents?

J. Scicluna

Mar 4th, 13:58

My, my, my!

Ain't we in panic mode?!?!?

Roll on 0903!

j brincat

Mar 4th, 13:45

"The announcement was made by the prime minister when he re-inaugurated the Mosta health centre at the end of a €600,000 refurbishment"

Of all places why Mosta and then you don't need to be genius to guess why!


jb

j brincat

Mar 4th, 13:43

WOW!

Miracles do happeno n the eve of a PN election.

So much the better so that the people can have longer time to gossip and chatter!

Who was the ex PN minister who said so?

jb

alfred camilleri

Mar 4th, 13:42

About time! better late than never....in readiness for the impending influx of patients once the election results are out!!!!!!

Victor Buhagiar

Mar 4th, 13:41

Last minute hopefulls, how conventient after so many year in Government only a few days ago, MAM and the PN Goverment signe a new collective agreement thereyb give a present to the suffering public.
Shameful is not adequate any more.

James Grech

Mar 4th, 13:41

The way that this government operates is very worrying to say the least. It has for the past years adopted a management by crises approach. After months of nodding on the job, the health minister realised that what he had planned on doing at the beginning of the legislature, was still incomplete. He urgently manages to convince MAM to agree on extended hrs & voila'. Now all is accomplished!!

Ronnie Callus

Mar 4th, 13:39

Grazzi, biss hadt daqsxejn fit-tul-biex irrielizajt bdan il-bzonn biex tnaqqas li-queues f'Mater Dei. Issa l-ghasfur harab.

Anthony Grech

Mar 4th, 13:36

'The extension was made possible after a new collective agreement with the doctors' union, signed last week.'
The extention was made possible after the Labour criticism and the election.

D Axisa

Mar 4th, 13:34

Electoral gimmicks at there best.

HERMANN PAUL FARRUGIA

Mar 4th, 13:25

I look forward to the day when our Regional Health Centres along with the Gozo Craig Hospital will become centres of excellence,an intrinsic part of the nationwide Diabetes Control & Prevention Programme so dynamically well proposed by Simon Busuttil & the PN Electoral Programme.The Health Service in Metabolism has already been well revamped at Mater Dei Hospital & we long for a proper networking.

Jos Borg

Mar 4th, 13:17

So a number of health centres were closed and others had their opening times restricted to a few hours because of doctors, and the lack of an agreement with them?

I always had the impression that it was the Minister of Health who took these decision to reduce cost.

Now that we are on the eve of an election, government is giving a different picture.

K Sammut

Mar 4th, 13:13

Is the prime minister trying to make up for shutting down local poly clinics?

Paul Debono

Mar 4th, 13:11

Well done, very good move. Now we will wait to see if this would affect the POLLS.

Paul Micallef

Mar 4th, 13:10

JOSEPH fittex kun fil gvern ghax iktar ma jaghadi iz-zmien iktar ghandek ragun.

effie stafrace

Mar 4th, 13:08

as i am an naxxar resident i just phoned the bkara polyclinic if in a case of emergency i should go to mosta health centre opened to day by mr gonzi.the answer was that no the mosta clinic is not functionable and all emergencies should be directed to bkara.is this another political gimmick by mr gonzi?pathetic

A Cachia

Mar 4th, 13:05

Min meta nisthgu imorru il-Mosta igifiri? Min ghada stess?