A total €5 million of European funds are being spent on new advanced technology equipment for the Gozo General Hospital, health parliamentary secretary Chris Fearne said yesterday.

Speaking during the Gozo Hospital Worker of the Year Award, given to nurse Bernardette Piscopo, Mr Fearne said the hospital was being transformed from an abandoned one into a dignified hospital providing new services aimed at giving Gozitan patients the care they deserved without unnecessary travel.

He said that since the Day Care Unit was opened in July, some 400 patients made use of it and there was no one on the waiting list for a new service offered by the bone density unit.

During the ceremony, a team of the year award was also given to the Hyperbaric Unit team.

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