Parliamentary Secretary Franco Mercieca has said he stopped seeing patients privately but continued to perform operations in State hospitals. He insisted he was not still breaching the ministerial code of ethics.

The code prohibits Cabinet members from seeing any patients, whether in private or State-run clinics.

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