According to news portal ‘The Shift News’, daughter of Carmen Ciantar, Celine Camilleri Ciantar, serves on the Treatment Abroad Committee. This decides which patients require medical treatment or serious intervention outside of Malta.
Having just graduated as a dentist two years ago, it is still unclear what kind of remuneration Camilleri Ciantar receives from her committee position. Carmen Ciantar is currently facing backlash over a €163,000 a year contract as Foundation for Medical Services CEO salary. The National Audit Office describes this as ‘irregular.’
She also earns an extra government pay while serving on the Malta Gaming Authority’s board of governors. She also serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne’s chief of staff. She does not receive a salary for that role.
Brian St John, one of her predecessors, had an €80,000 contract, which is roughly half the amount paid to Ciantar. Ciantar herself has asked the Standards Commissioner to investigate, with the Nationalist Party calling on the contract to be scrapped.
Fearne himself said that the contract will be revised in 2024, with Prime Minister Robert Abela insisting that the contract was before his tenure.
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