Minister for Health asks to invite the Auditor General to scrutinise contracts signed between Vitals Healthcare and the government for the running of the Gozo hospital

Minister for Health Chris Fearne asks the Public Accounts Committee to invite the Auditor General to scrutinise contracts signed between Vitals Healthcare and the government for the running of the Gozo hospital. “In a statement, the Nationalist Party said that after months of resistance to publish the contracts signed for the privatization of the three hospitals, the government has now said that they should be investigated by the Auditor General. The government was doing this not because it believes in the investigation but because it knows that such an investigation cannot be completed before the election, the PN said. The Auditor General has a huge workload and will not finish the investigation in time. (…) The PN as well as the Medical Association of Malta and the UHM Voice of the Workers have for long been insisting that the contracts should be made public.”