137 patients at Mater Dei Hospital died of chest infections since October, Health Minister Konrad Mizzi told Claudette Buttigieg (PN) in reply to a parliamentary question.

Dr Mizzi also said two patients had died in January this year in ward extensions (corridors) and two more had died in February.

No deaths had been reported in corridors in  November and December 2014.

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