An agreement was reached between the Ministers for Energy and Health in which the Mater Dei Hospital would take the blame for MDH having to make use of generators so that Enemalta would not look bad, the Nationalist Party said in a statement on Friday.

The Opposition was referring to an instance on 30 July where it said that MDH had to rely on generators. It continued that on the following day, PN MP Ryan Callus had issued a statement “where he revealed what happened in Mater Dei the day before, and claimed that the reason Mater Dei had to rely on generators was due to instability that arose in Enemalta’s distribution system”. It added that this meant that the country’s strategic assets, such as MDH, were in danger due to the lack of investment in the distribution system and the government’s “amateurish policy”.

PN said that Enemalta had subsequently issued a statement “giving the impression that what happened in Mater Dei was not due to any failure in Enemalta”, and that this statement had been made after a meeting between the Energy and Health Ministers. It continued that the Labour Party had then said that PN’s statement was “a lie and intended to create alarm”.

Following this, PN said that MP Adrian Delia sent an email to the CEO of Enemalta in order to confirm what had happened on 30 July which resulted in MDH using the generators. PN said that it received a reply after two days from Keith Attard, the CEO of MDH, in which he “confirmed what the Nationalist Party claimed, namely that Mater Dei had to rely on generators due to a change in the voltage”.

Delia and Callus said that this response “confirms how Enemalta is trying to hide the facts, in conspiracy with the Labour Party”. They concluded that Malta “does not need lies and concealment, but a new government with a vision that is able to solve the problems created by the Labour government and give a modern country with an effective infrastructure back to the Maltese”.