Directive to all Nurses working in Gozo General

Hospital

Published June 2020

The Prime Minister yesterday stated that the Public Health Emergency Declaration that had been enacted due to the Covid-19 is going to be lifted in the coming hours. This implies that the huge sacrifices done by the numerous nurses in GGH who having been temporally transferred from their wards and departments (not to mention change of rosters) besides having their duties changed is to be terminated.

MUMN would not allow further sacrifices which now have no justification. Also, GGH has to follow other hospitals in Malta which are retracting various internal transfers of nurses and are reverting back to pre-covid duties.

In the light that GGH management is not willingly to transfer back the nurses to their respective wards and give nurses back their pre-covid duties, MUMN is issuing a directive with immediate effect that:-

1. All nurses and practise nurses to return to their original pre-covid duties and rosters. The only exemption will be out-patients who will remain operating at Barts Medical School and the E/A Department. This is due to construction works which should be taking place in the coming weeks;
2. No nurse is to be removed from his or her workplace. The time of sacrifices is over and MUMN would like to thank all its members for the sterling work done in GGH during the time of the Covid crisis;
3. The Orthopaedic Nurses who are reporting to work at St. Anna Ward should report to work at the Orthopaedic Ward on the 1^st July 2020. In the meantime, till the end of June, they are to follow these Directives –
4. Do not exceed the total of 16 patients admitted at St. Anna Ward;
5. Do not make use of the Skype or any other same medium;
6. Do not answer any landline telephones;
7. The nurses who used to work at the Orthopaedic Ward and are now reporting to work at the Day Ward should report to work at St. Anna Ward.

MUMN

15^th June 2020