PN plans big reform in primary healthcare
Investment in primary care would be the Nationalist Party’s priority in the health sector in the next legislature, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said last night. Interviewed by Jean Claude Micallef, a TV presenter and the son of a Labour candidate, Dr...
Investment in primary care would be the Nationalist Party’s priority in the health sector in the next legislature, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said last night.
Interviewed by Jean Claude Micallef, a TV presenter and the son of a Labour candidate, Dr Gonzi said during a party activity in Santa Venera that plans were in hand to introduce a massive reform in the primary health sector.
“We have made massive progress in the health sector over the past years and, apart from building a state-of-the art hospital, we are constructing a new oncology hospital and planning to have a new rehabilitation facility.
“However, our main priority in the coming five years will be the transformation of our primary health sector, dedicating most of our investment in this area to health centres in various localities.”
Dr Gonzi said that for the country to continue to progress and develop there must be a serious government making the right decisions and directing the country towards a steady course.
He said that in the first week of the campaign it had already become clear that the Labour Party was no serious alternative to the PN and was only basing its proposals on gimmicks, which, if implemented, would drive the country’s economy into the wall.
“Don’t let what happened in 1996 with the VAT issue repeat itself again with the electricity issue.
What Labour is suggesting is just a fairy tale that will bring back the country to its knees. We are warning you but the choice is finally yours,” the Prime Minister said.
He said that while the PN in government had a positive track record and could boast of having a sound economy producing good jobs, Labour was so ashamed of its past that it wanted to cancel from the history books the 22 months it was in power between 1996 and 1998.
He said that the first casualty of a Labour government would be jobs. “Every time Labour was in power, jobs were scarce and the rate of unemployment ballooned. The PN is the party of job creation and everyone recognises this.”
Dr Gonzi said that, in the coming weeks, the PN would show once again that it had the best programme for the running of the country in the next legislature.
He was sure that the electorate would again decide that the PN was the best option for Malta.