Senior citizens receiving their first COVID-19 vaccination in Gżira on Saturday reported an orderly process without the queues or disorganisation which plagued some health centres on Friday.
Healthcare workers are vaccinating people aged 85 and over who still live in their homes, and have received a letter which included an appointment for both the first and second dose of the vaccine.
Senior citizens waiting outside the Gżira health centre on Saturday morning to receive their vaccination spoke positively about their experience.
Two seniors told this newsroom how they felt after taking the vaccine Video: Matthew Mirabelli
“The whole process was very well organised and I feel good,” Lewis, who just turned 86 this week, said just moments after taking the jab.
[WATCH] Robert Abela, Chris Fearne insist COVID expert s redeployment not linked to school strike
The Health Ministry says public health consultant Kenneth Grech’s skills were needed elsewhere to secure EU funds and denies his redeployment from the COVID-19 response team is linked in any way to school strike • MUMN says this is bollocks
11 January 2021, 3:21pm
by Kurt Sansone / Nicole Meilak
Health Minister Chris Fearne insists that Kenneth Grech was redeployed because he was needed elsewhere
Updated at 8:00 pm with MAPHM reaction
PM Robert Abela and Health Minister Chris Fearne are reiterating the Health Ministry s claims that public health consultant Kenneth Grech was redeployed from the COVID-19 response team as his expertise was needed elsewhere, and not due to advice given on the reopening of schools.
[WATCH] Robert Abela, Chris Fearne insist COVID expert s redeployment not linked to school strike
The Health Ministry says public health consultant Kenneth Grech’s skills were needed elsewhere to secure EU funds and denies his redeployment from the COVID-19 response team is linked in any way to school strike • MUMN says this is bollocks
11 January 2021, 3:21pm
by Kurt Sansone / Nicole Meilak
Health Minister Chris Fearne insists that Kenneth Grech was redeployed because he was needed elsewhere
Updated at 8:00 pm with MAPHM reaction
PM Robert Abela and Health Minister Chris Fearne are reiterating the Health Ministry s claims that public health consultant Kenneth Grech was redeployed from the COVID-19 response team as his expertise was needed elsewhere, and not due to advice given on the reopening of schools.
The government is not taking the shortage of nurses seriously, their has union complained.
The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses said nurses were an internati
The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses – MUMN – has long been in dispute with the government over working conditions and the pay that its members receive as, indeed, have other unions representing professions related to medicine.
These disputes predate COVID-19 and the transient affection the public expressed for those who sacrificed so much to care for them at the beginning of the pandemic. They certainly did not suddenly arise out of a desire to abuse of the current situation.
Compared to other professionals of similar academic qualifications, these medical personnel work more socially inconvenient hours under very trying circumstances and, with few exceptions, for far less renumeration for every hour they give in service.