Nationalist MP says government ‘hasn’t solved health problems’

The Labour government is dragging its feet over the much-needed changes in the health sector, Nationalist MP Claudio Grech said.

“The government hasn’t changed anything within the health sector that has translated into results,” Grech told Sunday newspaper Illum.

“Waiting lists, emergency waiting times, medicines that are out of stock, the way Mount Carmel is run…they haven’t improved any of these problems.”

While acknowledging that more operations are being carried out, he said that this was only possible because of the collective agreement that the PN government had agreed with doctors before the 2013 elections.

“The government did well to use the tools we left them,” Grech said. “However, I don’t believe that they are working fast enough. Governments constantly have to work against the clock after all.”

Looking at the bigger picture, Grech said that he plans to “challenge the mentality that the Nationalist Party is bound to lose the 2018 elections.

 “To win people back to our party, we must first accept our election defeat. Also, we mustn’t take offence that the people chose to remove us from power. They sent us a message that day.”

“We must be an effective opposition that is loyal to the country and not a destructive one like the Labour Party was for 25 years.”

Read the full interview in Sunday’s edition of Illum