The trade union militancy pursued by the president of the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses has now been put a notch higher.

Ever since he threatened to pull his nurse members at Boffa Hospital out on strike for an alleged discourtesy to a nurse by a terminal cancer patient he has continued to use the threat of industrial action on the part of his nurses on every possible occasion.

This time however he has gone further. He now presumes that his union should negotiate the terms and conditions of service of hospital consultants while betraying an appalling ignorance of the terms and conditions generally accepted for them in the developed nations of the west.

The MUMN is damaging the special relationship that has long existed between doctor and nurse

Full use of highly trained and qualified medical consultants in acute general hospitals requires the availability of full-time, part-time and flexi-time posts.

It also appears to need reminding that doctor and nurse have collaborated and benefited from mutual respect since time immemorial and that this special relationship is being damaged by the way the MUMN is being led.

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