Volunteers give over 10,000 hours of support to Malta’s health services during pandemic

Thanks to the outpouring of support from people across the country, during the months of March and April in order to assist in the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malta, volunteers have given over 10,000 hours of volunteering to the health services in Malta.

In a statement, the Malta Health Network said that it teamed up with VolServ in the early stages of the pandemic to assist public health in its mission. It said that “the response has been fantastic and exactly what we expected from the Maltese.”

The work done has been also appreciated by the Hon. Robert Abela, Prime Minister and the Hon Chris Fearne, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for health during a visit they had at Public Health. They were very thankful for all the contributions given and showed an interest that this collaboration between volunteers through Malta Health Network and Public health is strengthened. Prof Charmaine Gauci, Superintendent of Public Health explained how every task, no matter how big and small it seemed was very important to support all the efforts being done for the best of the nation.

Duties carried out by Volunteers include data inputting, contract tracing, patient-follow-ups, ensuring safety of working environment through temperature monitoring at entrance and phoning people to come to the swabbing centres just to mention a few duties carried out. Others have helped with running errands for vulnerable groups and various non-Maltese persons have helped in doing translations so that all people in Malta could be reached.

The Network is now issuing a fresh call for volunteers. Registration is possible through the Covid-19 Volunteers registration link.