November 2, 2022
THE NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE Performance Audit: A Follow-Up on the 2018 Strategic Overview of Mount Carmel Hospital
Auditor General Charles Deguara presented the performance audit report in caption to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Anġlu Farrugia. NAO’s original 2018 study had put forward a number of recommendations intended to address the issues and concerns related to Mount Carmel Hospital (MCH) and by implication, the Mental Health Services (MHS). This follow-up study was therefore intended to assess government’s progress in implementing this Office’s related recommendations. This review positively noted that all recommendations put forward in the NAO’s original 2018 report were accepted by MHS. More importantly, implementation, albeit to different extents, had been
THE MINISTRY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, SECURITY, REFORMS AND EQUALITY Humanitarian aid by the Government of Malta to Pakistan in connection with the severe flood-hit
Throughout the past days Pakistan experienced a natural flood-hit that left a severe impact in the country and to its people. In connection with these developments, the Ministry for Home Affairs, Security, Reforms and Equality is going to provide Pakistan with humanitarian assistance through the Civil Protection mechanism. The process as used by the Civil Protection Department with which our country assists foreign countries in need of urgent humanitarian aid, has therefore been initiated. Minister for Home Affairs, Security, Reforms and Equality Byron Camilleri explained that once again Malta is offering urgent humanitarian assistance to other countries that
US Pharmacy Chains Reach Tentative Opioid Settlement
Two of the largest U.S. pharmacy chains — CVS and Walgreens — are reported to have tentatively agreed to pay more than $10 billion to settle more than 3,000 state and local lawsuits involving the dispensing of opioid painkillers. In a statement released Wednesday, CVS Health said it agreed it will pay approximately $5 billion — with $4.9 billion to states and political subdivisions and approximately $130 million to Native American tribes — over the next 10 years beginning in 2023. In a similar statement, Walgreens said it would make $4.95 billion in remediation payments to be paid out
As Ebola Spreads in Kampala, WHO Urges Uganda’s Neighbors to Prepare
The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that Ebola’s arrival in the Ugandan capital highlighted the high risk of further spread of the deadly virus, calling on neighboring countries to boost their preparedness. Since Uganda’s health ministry first declared the outbreak on September 20, the country has registered more than 150 confirmed and probable cases, including 64 deaths, WHO said. And since the deadly disease spread to Kampala last week, 17 cases have been confirmed there, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. “Although these cases are linked to known clusters, the very fact that there are cases in a densely