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Greens raise patients’ electoral rights

AD, The Green Party, said it was concerned that no provision has been made to facilitate the voting procedure of hospitalised patients during the next elections.

Mario Mallia, AD secretary general, said, "This means that very sick patients will be have to transported from hospital to their town or village in order to exercise their right to vote. Sometimes this happens against medical advice and to the detriment of the patient’s health".

He adds, "It is not fair that the patients are paying for the petty rivalries between the two traditional parties, who cannot even agree with each other on such an elementary principle. It also unfair that hospital workers have to shoulder the responsibility of accompanying these patients outside hospital".

Mario Mallia declared AD’s support of the calls made by the Unions of Nurses, Doctors, Pharmacists and Hospital Workers for a change to the law. AD invited both the Nationalist Party and the Labour Party to put the rights of these patients before partisan interests.