Deputy queries Health minister over the 'badly managed' PEH

THE hospital is badly managed and Health and Social Services needs to address the situation, Deputy Mike Hadley has said.

Deputy Hadley, pictured, described the department's recruitment efforts as 'sheer madness' and was surprised the wards had not reopened.

He has sent a list of questions to minister Mark Dorey to find out exactly what efforts have been made to employ nurses.

HSSD announced this week that De Saumarez and Divette wards would remain closed because it was unable to attract enough qualified nurses.