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October 2017- Issue 94 www.vida.com.mt HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Six of Malta's ghost stories THE CAPSULE WARDROBE Classic pieces made to last EXCLUSIVE PBS boss signed eight-year car lease that breached procurement rules... one of the cars is for former head of news Natalino Fenech Newspaper post SUNDAY • 1 OCTOBER 2017 • ISSUE 934 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY SUNDAY • 1 OCTOBER 2017 • ISSUE 934 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday YOUR FIRST READ AND CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT €1.75 SUNDAY • 1 OCTOBER 2017 • ISSUE 934 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today today • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Marlene Farrugia NO F*CKS GIVEN HERE... WHAT ABOUT THAT COALITION? Patients pen letter from inside ward where they sleep on floor PAUL COCKS FEMALE patients from Mount Carmel Hospital's 'male ward 8B' have penned a letter that was passed on to MaltaToday, testify- ing to the "inhumane" conditions in which they find themselves. The patients include drug ad- dicts who have been referred for treatment at the state men- tal health hospital in Attard. MaltaToday understands that female patients are hosted in what is the left wing of the MW8B, now segregated from the male section by a central lobby, and metal gates. The conditions inside the ward were recently given prom- inence by Democratic Party MP Godfrey Farrugia, who re- quested that Commissioner for Health Charles Messina carry out an investigation. Farrugia said patients' rights were being violated, with not enough beds available in MW8B, and that half of the patients were sleeping on mat- tresses in the corridor. He said the conditions violated the Mental Health Act. MATTHEW VELLA PRESSURE is mounting on PBS chief executive John Bundy, over a massive €500,000 leasing con- tract for motor vehicles carried out in breach of procurement rules. In minutes from a directors' meeting seen by MaltaToday, the politically-appointed CEO was said to have ignored con- tract rules when PBS signed 14 different contracts for a total of €500,131 to lease cars for the unprecedented duration of eight years. PAGE 4 PG 11 University academics actually did a study on that most Maltese of utterances 16-17 Bundy's hush-hush €500,000 car deal breached PBS rules 14 15 MOUNT CARMEL FREE