Malta cannot stop a company from importing a morning-after contraceptive pill that has EU approval, Joseph Muscat said this evening.
Speaking at one of the meetings in the Gvern li Jisma series, the Prime Minister said he was not in a position to make moral statements, but to speak to the experts.
In this case, the expert was the Medicines’ Authority, whose reply had actually surprised him,” Dr Muscat said.
“We were told that there are people who take other pills in larger amounts than they should, and have the same effect of the morning-after pill.
“But what surprised me the most is that there is already a pill that is licensed to be sold in all European countries, and if a company wants to start selling it in Malta, we cannot stop them,” he said.
Answering questions about the health sector, Dr Muscat noted that Gozitans would soon see a quantum leap in care, while current healthcare employees there will not lose their job with the civil service, he reassured.
Earlier, Dr Muscat said that over the past six years Malta had reduced unemployment to historical lows. Current unemployment was half that which the government had inherited at the beginning of this legislature.
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