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Infuriated MUMN lambasts government consultation 'biggest joke of the century'
'Lack of consultation on new Strategic Business Unit' sparks directive by the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses.
22 February 2014, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
2 min read
MUMN president Paul Pace issues new directives.
MUMN president Paul Pace has issued a directive ordering nurses at Boffa hospital not to attend meetings or contribute to migration to the new oncology hospital, to boycott any administrative instructions from clinical consultants and warned that nurses, including management, will not be part of the migration when the patients are transferred to the new oncology hospital.
The latest MUMN directive finds its roots in the surprise announcement of a Strategic Business Unit for the management at Mater Dei Hosptial, including the new oncology hospital.
Recalling Labour's electoral pledge of a "government that listens", Pace accused the Minister for Health of doing the exact opposite: "The Health Minister never bothered to request our slightest opinion on this unit. But then he expects the MUMN to just bow its head and agree to every word his henchmen the consultants and himself decided."
Lashing out at this decision, Pace said would give the medical consultants, who are clinical doctors, administrative roles in the day-to-day running of their department. According to Pace, "certain clinical consultants have a conflict of interest due to their private practice".
He went to attribute the botched "bizarre" decision of setting up a tent outside the outpatient department as having been the idea of "a small number of medical consultants" who serve as "personal advisers" to the minister.
"Then the Health Minister boasts that all stakeholders are being consulted and participate in the decision making process of Mater Dei Hospital... Biggest joke of the century," Pace said.
"MUMN discovered that such Strategic Business Unit (SBU) has not only been finalized but as we speak is being put into action. This type of management is going to affect seriously the working conditions of our members in a negative way and in no way it is going to set Mater Dei Hospital as a patient focused hospital."
Pace argued that such Strategic Business Units would be imposed on the nurses/midwives working at Mater Dei Hospital, to the detriment of patients. This system, he added, will not resolve the issue of bed shortage and of patients being nursed on stretchers in MDH.
MUMN will be summoning all nurses and midwives since such a "Health Minster cannot be allowed to bulldoze over nurses and the midwives."
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We were promised a government that listens, true, not one that obeys Pawlu Pace.
The most ruthless union person I have ever seen in Malta, using the suffering of our patients to achieve his aims. Shame.
Dragging the Union down with him.
Most nurses are against his methods, he will force them to decide whether to obey him or act proportionately and professionally.
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Infuriated MUMN or infuriuated and disapponted Pawlu Pace. If I were the Health Minister I will create a Department to look after bed pans and appoint PP as head of said department. I bet that if this happens the MUMN will go into a hebernation stage
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MUMN are becoming to amateurish or selfish ?They are downgrading and shaming the health sector,who do they think they are trying to bully certain decisions !Do they not realize that they are not running our hospitals all we hear of is them crying and moaning ,to their information there are more health workers than nurses and if you are a patient in mater dei hospital you will realize what kind of service and from what type of category health workers take tender loving care of the sick and people in need,Mumn are creating obstacles that other health workers disagree with.
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Why does the Governments in Malta accepts in being held hositage by maverick Union bosses? We are now part and parcel of the EU and the Government should opt out to tender the administration and running of hospitals through public private partnerships with a call for the contract througgout the EU. If the Maltese nursing community does not want to work I am sure that there is more than enough nursing opportunities overseas that will accept the jobs, after all that was the only way the UK had to deal with the coal miners in UK last centuary leaving unions and their workers with their tails between their legs till this very day and it was a conservative government than so it should be no issue for the PN or will it
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That is what happens when one follows on from an extremely soft, unenergetic, inefficient administrator (GRAZZI GONZIPN?!). Underlings get to grab the upper hand, and become highly unreasonable, having become accustomed to the very good, highly remunerated, easy soft life whilst determining their own shift working patterns(Din tajba?!) It would devolve into an extremely difficult position to dislodge them from their untenable stand and position. BUT MINISTER FARRUGIA SHOULD! HE HAS THE PUBLIC'S SUPPORT BEHIND HIS EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE WASTE, SLEAZE, BUREAUCRACY AND INCREASE VALUE FOR EACH TAXPAYERS' DOLLAR.
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Can Mr Pace tell us what's wrong with having a unit which manages the hospital effectively? Is it because some will no longer be able to carry on like they used to do before under the PN? Tell us Mr Pace, we are all ears for your comments. Mr Pace, the Governemnt has been elected to DECIDE how to run everything NOT your Union or any other union for that matter. So stop trying to put a spanner in the works because you shall never stop the governemnt from implementng its program.
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Dan Pace nahseb li jhob jinstema fl`ahbarijiet , tiftakruh qabel l-elezjoni kemm kien ihambaq , issa waqatlu il maskla ghax ghal minn jafu dan l-individwu hu nazjonalist minn gharqubu . Iva xejn mhem tajjeb ? ghax ma jmexxihx hu l-isptar halli naraw !! Daqsekk ghandu ghal qalbu il pazjenti ?
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A suggestion to the Government. Appoint Mr Pace either as the Minister of Health or, at least, Parliamentary Secretary for Health.
