Rudolph Cini writes:

On July 11, the nursing profession suffered the great loss of one of the most dynamic, energetic and professionally able nurses in our country. Mary Anne Bugeja passed suddenly away at the early age of 37.

Mary Anne was a very close working colleague and we shared the same working office for a number of years and I can vouch for her motivation and capabilities.

We also shared a good number of years together in the leadership of the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses as Mary Anne held the office of financial secretary during my tenure as president.

Mary Anne will remain in all our memories as an innovative and challenging person, full of ideas and energy to implement changes that propelled the nursing profession forward.

Known by her friends as “Manan”, she was the pioneer in motivating nurses to continue to develop professionally and she regularly was a catalyst to hold continuous professional development courses. She even had her own lecture room at St Vincent de Paul Residence, which will be renamed after her in the coming days.

Mary Anne has left a vacuum among all her colleagues at St Vincent de Paul Residence, who still cannot believe that she will not be with us anymore. She left a future full of upcoming activities already planned by her and was also preparing to set up an association for nurses specialising in geriatrics.

Mary Anne, we all miss you but, as they say, the good die young. May you now rest in peace in the good hands of the Lord.