Around 90 graduates from the Faculty of Health Sciences are yet to be given jobs, PN MP Claudio Grech said.

These students are not doctors, he said, however compliment the medical profession. They include communications therapists, podologists, speech therapists, physiotherapists and applied biomedical science graduates. The PN appealed to the government to not leave these workers in limbo.

These students have completed their course and will soon hold their graduation. In the past, he said, the PN used to give these students casual working jobs.

"It is unfair that these students are not yet working". Mr Grech explained that these students had their education paid by the taxpayer and that waiting lists in certain cases related to their professions are quite long.

The PN MP gave an example of a mother of a child with autism, arguing that persons with autism require occupational and speech therapy, both of which have long wait times for appointments.

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