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Malta faces a brain drain with most doctors that graduated in 1999 leaving the island, Martin Balzan, the Medical Association of Malta’s secretary-general, tells MaltaToday in an interview.
Balzan is not pleased with the heath reforms and believes doctors should be offered a better deal. He also takes Health Minister Louis Deguara to task over recent declarations made in Parliament on wages paid to consultants. Deguara claimed that some consultants had turned down a wage of Lm45,000 instead preferring to earn Lm8,000 while keeping their private practice.
Challenging the Minister, Balzan says that medical consultants would agree to work with government and give up their private practice if they were offered a yearly salary of Lm45,000. Speaking this week, Balzan indicates that surgeons are paid less per hour than painters and laments the number of elderly ‘patients’ that are at St Luke’s when they should be in a home.
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