Woman dies waiting for appointment at Mater Dei – Deo Debattista

According to Labour candidate Deo Debattista a woman who was asked to wait a year and a half before she could be visited by a consultant at Mater Dei Hospital, died of cancer.

Debattista said the patient had visited Mater Dei Hospital complaining of pain when she was given an appointment with a consultant to determine the cause of the pain.

The woman was reportedly put on the waiting list, but had died of cancer before she could be examined.

"This woman died because no one could establish what was causing her pain. Only the consultant could have established that her pain was coming from a cancer in her bladder," Debattista told Illum.

Read the full interview with Deo Debattista in Illum