On tonight’s Reporter: the Dalli report on Mater Dei Hospital
MediaToday Managing Editor Saviour Balzan will investigate allegations of theft within the hospital
In light of the political furore surrounding John Dalli's report on Mater Dei, tonight’s edition of Reporter will scrutinise the report together with former European health commissioner John Dalli and Medical Association of Malta General Secretary Martin Balzan.
Reporter, a ‘hard talk' style programme, will include numerous live telephone interventions from various stakeholders including Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia and PN Health spokesperson Claudio Grech.
In his report, ‘Mater Dei Hospital: A Better Social Return', John Dalli has insisted that the only way forward for the hospital is its political autonomy and for its administration to be left in the hands of the management rather than under political influence.
The report uncovered numerous accounting discrepancies and found that the primary problem was an inexistent management with all departments and stakeholders working on their own, disjointed from others.
However, the government has since distanced itself from the report and stressed that Dalli does not reflect the government's opinion. Reporter will ask whether the government is ready to accept Dalli's advice to remove political influence from the hospital's administration. MediaToday Managing Editor Saviour Balzan will also examine Dalli's allegations that there have been thefts in the hospital.
The programme is produced and presented by Saviour Balzan, assisted by journalist Jerome Caruana Cilia and the MediaToday newsroom.
Reporter is aired live every Monday at 6.55pm on TVM. The programme is repeated on TVM2 on Monday at 10.15pm.