PN promises Gozitans chemotherapy in Gozo and a hospital helipad

Chemotherapy patients should not have to cross over to Malta to receive their medical treatment, the Nationalist Party has said, in a pledge to make that service, as well as MRI scans available in Gozo if elected into government. The PN’s health-related pledge for Gozo joins other proposals which the party has made to improve healthcare services on Malta’s sister island: building a new 400-bed hospital for Gozo and building helipads to provide a proper medical helicopter service linking Gozo General and Mater Dei hospitals. Josephine Xuereb, a nurse and PN electoral candidate, said Gozitans diagnosed with cancer were currently forced to cross over to Malta once or twice a week for chemotherapy sessions – trips made especially difficult due to their weakened immune systems. “We are committed to doing away with this unnecessary suffering if we are in government,” she said, adding that the PN would also invest to ensure MRI scans could be carried out in Gozo. A new Gozo hospital PN MP Chris Said, who also serves as the party’s spokesperson for Gozo, reiterated the party’s pledge to build a new 400-bed hospital on the island as well as to take back Gozo General Hospital from...