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Government paying €1.2 million to Steward for Barts Medical School, Chris Fearne confirms
Over a 30-year concession, government will pay out €36 million to Steward Healthcare
17 February 2021, 5:56pm
by Nicole Meilak
Health Minister Chris Fearne has confirmed that government is paying €1.2 million per year to Steward Healthcare to make use of the Barts Medical School.
Responding to a parliamentary question, Fearne said that the infrastructural facilities and equipment, stipulated in the contract between government and the Queen Mary University of London, was built and funded by Steward Healthcare Malta.
However, the building is leased out to government for €1.2 million per year so that it can be used as a medical school.
Former health minister Konrad Mizzi refuses to answer questions when he is summoned as a witness in the court case initiated by Nationalist MP Adrian Delia to have the hospitals concession contract with Vitals rescinded
The Daphne Caruana Galizia public inquiry resumes tomorrow. It’s been a dramatic series of hearings. The last episode ended with not one but two twists, though public attention fell on just one. A pity.
The twist no one missed is Robert Abela’s brazen attack on the inquiry. He has left its future in question. The panel is investigating the state but the state’s prime minister wants us to think it’s the judges who are in the dock and he who will judge them.
Their transgression: they want to be thorough, which takes time. (Though they’re not taking longer than this kind of inquiry would take, for instance, in the UK). Abela has insinuated a darker motive, one he understands: money. Now the panel has declared it’s ready to keep working without payment.