A police investigation to be ordered by the government into reports of structural weaknesses at Mater Dei Hospital’s accident and emergency department has the backing of the Nationalist Party.
“We urge the government to conclude this investigation at the earliest so the facts can be established,” a PN spokesman said yesterday. He added that technical people who had been responsible for the construction would be expected to be questioned as part of this probe.
The Sunday Times of Malta reported yesterday that tests have shown that concrete structures at the emergency department were so weak in certain areas they could not sustain the weight of two planned medical wards.
Completed by Swedish construction company Skanska in 2007 at a cost of some €600 million, the new hospital at Tal-Qroqq was deemed too small to cater for the country’s needs as from day one. Work on the project had started in 1993.
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