The new minister for Education is a teacher by profession. The new minister for Social Policy is an accountant…

A chronic problem in the health sector is brain-drain. Several health care professionals work under continuous pressures of work for 40 or more hours a week, all year long. Unfortunately, the work of some of these dedicated government employees has not been appreciated in the past. They seem to be of a burden for our economy and the “greedy” (anti-liberalisation) private sector is gradually allowed to take over. I am referring to the Pharmacy of Your Choice scheme.

I believe that the real economic policy should first see that certain glorified categories of workers who earn summer bonuses for not going to work, start delivering similar outputs as in other European countries where the need for private tuition, childhood obesity due to few PE lessons, and the problem of early school leavers are not major issues as is the case in Malta. Who can deny facts?

Charles Micallef

Fgura