Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia insisted that the split of the Cardiology Department at Mater Dei Hospital had been decided in patients’ best interests.

Answering two parlia-mentary questions by Opposition health spokesman Claudio Grech, Dr Farrugia said he could understand the position taken by some of the consultants after the decision.

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