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Labour publishes photos of patients at Mater Dei without pillows
The Labour Party insists that government should address the sufferings of the patients at the hospital, rather than embark on a public relations campaign.
9 April 2012, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
1 min read
The Labour Party has published photos of patients at Mater Dei Hospital without pillows
The Labour Party has published photos of patients at Mater Dei Hospital, who instead of a pillow were given sheets and pyjamas to be used as pillows.
"In a bid to try and hide what's really going on at the hospital, government is ignoring the sufferings of the patients instead of investigating these incidents," the PL's spokesperson for health, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca said in a statement.
In a reaction to an original statement issued by Coleiro Preca on the lack of pillows at Mater Dei, the Health Ministry had invited the media to visit a storeroom, filled with new pillows.
Coleiro Preca said that government felt "more comfortable" publishing photos of a room full of packed pillows, a room which is found at St Luke's Hospital.
"If the Health Ministry has so many pillows, why did patients remain without one?" Coleiro Preca said, adding that government should also say when the pillows were placed in the storage room.
Coleiro Preca added that if Health Minister Joe Cassar wanted to be taken seriously by the public, he should guarantee that all halls at Mater Dei Hospital have enough pillows for the patients.
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Il-veri stupidi u imbecilli huma dawk li ANKI KIEKU KIEN VERU LI HEMM NUQQAS TA' MHADED, anki kieku veru, jaghmlu dal-plejtu kollha fuq haga daqstant ckejkna. Forsi trid tkun stupidu!
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Tibqghux turu kemm ghandna oppozizzjoni stupida u redikola. Iva, anki kieku veru hemm nuqqas ta' mhaded, ANKI KIEKU VERU, possibbli ma tindunawx kemm inmtom redikoli u stupidi? Possibbli intom tant injoranti? DIK il-problema taghna? Phu kemm toifilhu tkunu redikoli. Iva jien gieli gejt bzonn is-servizz ta' l-isptar u ntihom 100 fil-mija ghas-servizz li jaghtu lic-cittadin. U mela nilmenta u naghmel plejtu ghax, MHUX VERU, hemm nuqqas ta' mhaded? Aghmlu xkora taht raskom u rringrazzjaw 'l Alla li ghandna servizz b'xejn. U servizz mill-aqwa.
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@ Giovanni Demartino. QABEL TLABLAB FIL VOJT ARA SEW IS SITWAZZJONI KIF INI . APPUNTAMENT LI GHAMILT HAMES XHUR ILU GHAL MRI BAQA FUQ L IXKAFFA MILLI JIDHER + PILOLLI DEJJEM OUT OF STOCK U JEKK NIBQA SEJJER MA NISPICCA QATT .QABEL TLABLAB FIL VOJT L EWWEL IDHOL FIZ -ZARBUNA TIEGHI UNMAD JEKK JIFDALLEK VUCI PARLA. JERK
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It is true ,that there is a shortage of pilows at Mater Dei.Last week,the Ministry show us a store of pillows,but ironically it was St.luke's at not Mater Dei.
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@ Giovanni Demartino! Why STUPID Giovanni, maybe because we are not being pulled by the nose? Maybe because we are not siding your arrogance? Tell us please why the rest of Malta with the exception of you are all stupid or maybe one has to have blue eyes and see blue even when it is black? Your arguments are pathetic as much as those of GonziPN. It seems that you never needed to visit Mater Dei (for Medic reasons)for if you do you will surely change your attitude of reasoning and will quickly SHUT UP!
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From one ridiculous polemic to another.
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@Giovanni De Martino. Le m'hix l-agahr, imma bhalissa hija epitomija ta' Gvern rieqed. Shhhhhhhh. Ghax tqajjmu.
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Mater Dei immersing itself in a desperate situation. It seems the situation is getting worst than St. Luke's Hospital. No pillows, no wheelchairs, no medicines.......what is next....no food??
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Kemm ghandna oppozizzjoni ridikola!
Mela DIK hi l-problema li ghandna Malta.
Kemm tifilhu tkunu stupidi!
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The Honourable Minister Cassar may find it useful to know, that there has been a Pllow elected to the Sliema local Council.
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"State of the art" headrests in the state of the art hospital?
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Mater Dei Hospital will be having its own pillow fights!
‘Red alert’ – I repeat, ‘red alert’!
One News eloquently reported during the main news bulletin at 7.30pm that at Mater Dei Hospital we have a shortage of medicines, wheelchairs and yes pillows (apart from a ‘waiting list committee’ that is calling people to see if they have died and in that case they will be knocked off the waiting list for their hip-joint)!!
Now at this point, I really don’t know whether this is a tragedy or a comedy, whether the first prize goes to One News with their investigative journalism or to the Mater Dei pillow coordinator.
If we have the time to report in the main news bulletin that there is a lack of pillows, God help us, this Country is really doing well! If on the other hand, there is a crises in the pillow supply department of a hospital that costs us thousands of euros per day to run, then Minister Cassar should be pillowed out off his post.
For God’s sake, politicians, journalists, policy makers, get a grip on yourself and respect our grey matter. Just deal with poverty, exclusion, segregation, abused children, a stuttering educational system, youth unemployment, a road network that is collapsing by the minute, an economic situation which is starting to really mess people up and then, yes, we will talk about the pillow shortage!
In the meantime to raise awareness about this very serious issue, I suggest we organise the National Championships of Pillow Fights – Venue: The ER at Mater Dei!
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