More than 150 employees from CareMalta and HILA received long-service awards in recognition of their hard work and loyalty over the past five, 10, 15, 20 and 25
The Nationalist Party is promising to close Mount Carmel Hospital and regenerate it as a public open space, with people having mental health issues being treated at a new hospital close to Mater Dei.
A PN government would also update the outdated list of medicines on the government s formulary with innovative treatment for those suffering from chronic mental illness, the party s health spokesperson, Stephen Spiteri, promised on Wednesday.
The shadow minister was addressing the launch of PN s proposals for mental wellbeing, which the party is promising to put on equal footing with physical health.
The sector, he said, had been neglected for far too long, and mental health patients were being treated as second class citizens.