Editing Malta (section)

=== Healthcare ===

{{Main|Healthcare in Malta}}
Malta has a long history of providing [[publicly funded health care]]. The first hospital recorded in the country was already functioning by 1372.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civil Hospitals in Malta in the Last Two Hundred Years |url=http://www.geocities.com/hotsprings/2615/medhist/hospital2.htm  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020134711/http://geocities.com/HotSprings/2615/medhist/hospital2.htm |archive-date=20 October 2009 |access-date=31 March 2009 |website=Geocities.com}}</ref>
Today, Malta has both a public healthcare system, where healthcare is free at the point of delivery, and a private healthcare system.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Health Care System in Malta_1 |url=http://www.sahha.gov.mt/pages.aspx?page=156  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711220500/http://www.sahha.gov.mt/pages.aspx?page=156 |archive-date=11 July 2007 |access-date=31 March 2009 |website=Sahha.gov.mt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Government of Malta&nbsp;– Health Services |url=http://www.gov.mt/servicecluster.asp?s=4&l=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305122930/http://www.gov.mt/servicecluster.asp?s=4&l=2 |archive-date=5 March 2005 |access-date=31 March 2009 |website=Gov.mt}}</ref> Malta has a strong general practitioner-delivered primary care base and the public hospitals provide secondary and tertiary care. The Maltese Ministry of Health advises foreign residents to take out private medical insurance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 October 2006 |title=Healthcare in Malta&nbsp;– Allo' Expat Malta |url=http://www.alloexpat.com/moving_to_malta_forum/healthcare-in-malta-t162.html  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101065622/http://www.alloexpat.com/moving_to_malta_forum/healthcare-in-malta-t162.html |archive-date=1 January 2016 |access-date=31 March 2009 |url-status=usurped |website=Alloexpat.com}}</ref>
[[File:Mater Dei 01.jpg|thumb|[[Mater Dei Hospital]]|left]]
Malta also boasts voluntary organisations such as Alpha Medical (Advanced Care), the Emergency Fire & Rescue Unit (E.F.R.U.), St John Ambulance and Red Cross Malta who provide first aid/nursing services during events involving crowds, Malta's primary hospital, opened in 2007. It has one of the largest medical buildings in Europe.

The [[University of Malta]] has a medical school and a Faculty of [[Health Sciences]]. The [[Medical Association of Malta]] represents practitioners of the medical profession. The [[Foundation Program]]me followed in the UK has been introduced in Malta to stem the 'brain drain' of newly graduated physicians to the British Isles.