Health minister Godfrey Farrugia launches Business Friendly Contact Desk for private healthcare providers.
Health minister Godfrey Farrugia
Report by Jean Pierre Cassar
A Business Friendly Contact Desk has been set up within the health ministry to promote contacts with the business community for ventures within the health sector.
In a press conference held this morning at the Ministry of Health in Valletta, current Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Claudio Tonna, said the desk will “serve as a contact point with the healthcare providers.”
All private sector health services will be able to use this new project from self-employed health operators to private clinics and hospitals. It will advice in the development of partnerships between the public and the private health services.
Farrugia said the desk will work hand in hand with private health sector stakeholders “to develop synergistic and complementary public and private health services that will lay a strong basis on which a sustainable health system will be built on a national level.”
This desk, with the collaboration of the Ministries for Tourism and Enterprise, is planned to promote Health Tourism in all ways and serves as a catalyst for private health care providers to seek opportunities in the health tourism market.
The minister said that this would obviously help in removing the bureaucracy from the past years, as the reduction of administrative burdens in itself is to promote health care sustainability.
Farrugia explained how this desk is to reach out and engage with private health insurers and in partnership with the leading government institutions, unions and NGOs.
source: http://www.maltatoday.com / Malta ToDay / Home> News> National / Saturday – May 25th, 2013
