After 2 years of ‘ongoing negotiations’, government drops threats of ending hospitals deal
The Vitals Hospitals Deal
By the end of next year, taxpayers will already have paid over €300 million to Steward Health Care for the running of three state hospitals, while the American company has yet to fork out
* Steward to get additional €20 million per year to run Gozo General and Karin Grech hospitals * Steward facing at least five skeleton-laden court cases * Steward claims in court Vitals concession itself
What we know so far
- Steward freezes St Luke’s master plan as PM fails to deliver on pledge to amend tainted deal
- ‘Lost’ hospitals’ MOU found at Malta Enterprise, despite Kurt Farrugia’s denials
- Auditor General points to Keith Schembri’s active role in hospitals’ deal
- What we know about the ‘lost’, and newly found, hospitals’ MOU
- Government in long legal battle to stop publication of agreement now ‘missing’
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