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Yet Fearne conveniently glossed over the fact that, under the highly secretive VGH agreements, whatever the government budgets for the running of these hospitals, the funds go straight into Steward Health Care’s coffers – regardless of whether they actually spend it on the hospitals. The additional allocation of €20 million in the budget to bring the budgetary allocation to the three hospitals up to €70 million a year was deceptively described by Fearne as “more investment in the health sector”. The Shift has analysed hundreds of pages of documents related to the deal to understand what the government has been attempting to hide and to give readers perspective on news reports following the budget announcement of an additional €20 million towards healthcare. Steward Health Care has additionally summoned to testify in court, Prime Minister Robert Abela, Health Minister Chris Fearne, former prime minister Joseph Muscat and his chief of staff Keith Schembri, as well as the minister at the time signing off on the deal – Konrad Mizzi. Steward Health Care’s claims and the revelation of this cache of compromising documents give it powerful leverage over the government, at a critical time in the discussions over the future of the hospitals deal. They occur at a time when the government is seeking to build popular support for the renegotiation of the much-maligned deal originally granted to VGH – described by the National Audit Office as vitiated and illegal. This is just one of a wave of court cases relating to VGH and the Labour government’s decision to sell off public hospitals, all of which threaten to be highly embarrassing for the government. The proceedings relate to an appeal Steward Health Care has filed against a judgement involving one of the original VGH investors.

Steward Health Care, the company that took over the running of three public hospitals in Malta from the controversy-laden Vitals Global Healthcare (VGH), has claimed in court that the deal it acquired was mired in fraud and corruption, according to documents filed in court that the government has so far kept secret. * Steward to get additional €20 million per year to run Gozo General and Karin Grech hospitals * Steward facing at least five skeleton-laden court cases * Steward claims in court Vitals concession itself was the result of fraud and corruption * In September 2021, Steward filed unredacted copies of all VGH agreements, side letters and potentially embarrassing documents * In February 2022, Robert Abela, Chris Fearne, Joseph Muscat, Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri to face cross-examination about Steward’s claims of fraud and corruption in the entire deal

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