Current nursing shortages are the result of the previous administration’s decision to close down the university’s nursing course seven years ago, Parliamentary Secretary for Health Chris Fearne said this evening.

Replying to Parliamentary questions by Nationalist MPs Charlo’ Bonnici, David Agius and Claudio Grech, Mr Fearne said the course was eventually reopened and this year, the university’s diploma and degree courses would yield 180 new nurses.

All would be employed with the Department of Health.

This would still leave a smaller shortage of nurses, and the department was having talks with the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses on the engagement of a number of foreign personnel.

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