Nurses have been directed by their union to refuse to draw up incident reports requested by hospital management.
In a statement, the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses referred to a report leaked to the media a few days ago and requested safeguards for the incident not to be repeated.
It said that although civil service regulations dictated that no civil servant is allowed to address the media, there were no policies on the establishment that determined that documents would not be leaked to the press.