The Health Department yesterday denied favouring patients according to their political allegiance.

Opposition leader Simon Busuttil had on Tuesday evening claimed it was “scandalous” that the Labour government was favouring one patient over another in the pharmacy of your choice system.

He said that the government through the ministry and the POYC office was sending medicines to specific people according to their political allegiance.

The department said it was shameful that the Opposition leader, contrary to what his health spokesman MP Claudio Grech always insisted, was using health for partisan purposes.

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