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A meeting will be held on Thursday to find ways to stop foreign nurses leaving Malta for the UK, where conditions are more family friendly and employment more l

Updated 9.30am with Identity Malta's reaction Maxson Jose Joseph will celebrate his first birthday next week but he never met his three-year-old sister Miya. Their parents, Indian nurses working in Malta, could not travel to India to bring her home due to delays in issuing the necessary documentation. The couple, Jose Joseph and his wife Jossy, had to reluctantly take Miya to live with her grandparents in India until Maxson was born due to difficulties during the pregnancy. But delays by Identity Malta in issuing residence permits meant they could not go for their daughter after the birth, as...

Pharmacists dispute claims they opted out of COVID-19 vaccine preparation Union Haddiema Maqghudin pharmacists declared they are preparing the COVID-19 vaccine, contradicting MUMN claims 28 January 2021, 2:43pm by Laura Calleja The UHM has disputed a claim by the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) president Paul Pace that pharmacists decided to opt-out of preparing the COVID-19 vaccine, burdening nurses. “It turns out that pharmacists are in fact preparing the vaccine for administration, and notifying the Medicines Authority of adverse reaction to the drug,” the UHM said. The UHM ...

Nurse’s union boss: We will not reach herd immunity by September A nurse’s view on the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses president, Paul Pace answered MaltaToday’s questions on the vaccination roll-out 26 January 2021, 7:13am by Laura Calleja MUMN President Paul Pace at a press conference at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 Malta began rolling out the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on 27 December – starting first with healthcare professionals, and residents of care homes, expanding now to over 85s. However, the health authorities have received criti...

Malta is bracing itself for an exodus of foreign nurses who are being poached by the UK as part of its efforts to control its spiralling COVID-19 situation. So