Updated - Adds PN reaction below - The Health Minister has asked his Opposition counterpart to relay any information amid claims that politicians were putting pressure on the health authorities to enable certain patients to receive preferential treatment. 

Chris Fearne urged Claudette Buttigieg to relay any information she might have to enable the ministry to investigate such cases.

The Medical Association of Malta said last week that doctors working at health centres had complained of political interference to fast-track certain partients.

Likewise, Mr Fearne said he had asked the association to relay information to back its claims, but so far it had not received anything. 

"The Opposition is once again being negative about the health sector, a sector which has been given a new lease of life, where problems like out-of-stock medicines, waiting lists, medical tests and patients in corridors have been reduced."

GOVERNMENT SHOULD INVESTIGATE NOT HIT THE MESSENGER - PN

In a reaction, the Nationalist Party said it was disgraceful that the government was hitting out at whoever had revealed discrimination.

The least that Health Minister Chris Fearne could have done was to appoint an inquiry to investigate the actual discrimination, shadow minister Claudette Buttigieg said.  

 

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