Overseas training for employees of residential home for treatment of eating disorders

Dar Kenn Ghal Sahhtek prospective employees will be given professional training and mentoring in Malta and Italy under a memorandum of understanding signed today between the Health Ministry and the Azienda Sanitaria Locale Umbria.

Maltese personnel who will be working at the home will also participate in practical sessions in Italy.

The memorandum was signed this afternoon following a tour of the residential home for the treatment of eating disorders - anorexia, bulimia, binge eating - and obesity.

The tour was led by President George Abela.

The home, refurbished by the Malta Community Chest Fund, is at the ex-Sisters’ Quarters in Mtarfa.

The MCCF refurbished the home at a cost of around €2 million after it acquired the derelict building on a 99-year emphyteusis.

The home was the source of a controversy last month after it emerged that the MCCF had offered to pay for an overseas master’s degree on eating disorders to President aide Darleen Zerafa , who is also the sister of the President’s daughter-in-law.

Ms Zerafa had declined the offer.