My friends and I are carrying out research about Medical Tourism in the Maltese Islands as part of a diploma course for mature students. For this reason we would particularly like to hear from people who have visited Malta and/or Gozo either specifically or partially for Health reasons - particularly if they also underwent medical interventions in local clinics or Hospitals. Would you kindly publish our letter in your newspaper, please?

If anybody reading this has visited the Maltese Islands as a medical tourist (or else knows somebody who did and may thus kindly consider referring this letter to him/her) would they please consider writing to us about their experience in Malta and/or Gozo, how they feel about it - warts and all, what they found to their liking, what disappointed them, what they would change if they could etc. or else answer a questionnaire that we have prepared and will e-mail to them if they request it, please? Those who write to us need not disclose their identity and in any case all personal details will be kept strictly confidential. They need not answer ALL the questions of the questionnaire either. They may answer just the questions that they feel at ease writing about. Any opinion or insight about the subject of Medical tourism in the Maltese Islands coming from people who have actually travelled to Malta and/or Gozo for Health reasons – even if they did not eventually undergo medical (including dental) interventions – is most welcome. One may write to me at my e-mail address which is [email protected].

Marianna Galea Xuereb

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