A day after the government ordered a magisterial inquiry to find out how a car was allowed to block a hospital helipad, Times of Malta managed to park a vehicle right in the middle of the landing site, completely unhindered.

Fresh signs have been put up since Saturday’s incident, indicating that the site, at St Luke’s Hospital, is a helicopter landing area and that motorists should not park their vehicles there or obstruct the entrance.

However, there was nobody yesterday to enforce that order in case someone decided to ignore the signs.

The St Luke’s helipad site is being temporarily used instead of the one at Mater Dei Hospital because tower cranes there are involved in the construction of a new extension. It abuts a Malta Enterprise car park, which is meant to be guarded by the agency’s own security.

Read more in Times of Malta.

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