Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149) - Malta (Ratification: 1990)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee takes note of the information supplied in the Government's report.

Article 6, paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g), of the Convention. The Committee again requests the Government to describe the conditions of employment and work of nursing personnel under the current law and practice in the fields covered by these provisions and state to what extent the above conditions are comparable to those of other workers.

Part V of the report form. The Committee requests the Government to continue to supply general information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including for example: statistics on the number of nursing personnel and their relation to the population; the number of persons leaving the profession; any practical difficulties encountered in the implementation of the Convention.