The Barts Medical School Project in Gozo had not materialised because the government had sold Gozo’s only hospital to Vitals, which had no experience in the medical sector, the Nationalist Party’s spokesman for Gozo, Chris Said, said on Wednesday.

Addressing a news conference in front of Gozo General Hospital, Dr Said said all Vitals had done so far was demolish the ambulances garage and the canteen, to the detriment of the hospital.

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The government, Dr Said said, had one last chance to return the hospitals to the people.

He said that it was also not known who were the owners of Vitals. Although a new modern hospital that would accommodate 450 people was promised in Gozo by May, there was yet no sign of it.

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Education spokesman Frederick Azzopardi said that the Labour government had removed the responsibility for health in Gozo from the Gozitans giving the only hospital on the island to foreigners in an agreement which, to date, was still secret.

Vitals, he said, lacked the experience to manage even a small clinic, let alone a general hospital.

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The school they had to build, Mr Azzopardi said, had to be completed months ago but nothing had come of it. The government, he said, should take the hospitals back under its own wing and return them to the Maltese and Gozitans.