The Mater Dei Hospital (MDH), which is locally referred to as just the Mater Dei, is the primary hospital site, located in Msida. It is a general and teaching hospital, offering standard and specialist services. One of the biggest medical sites in Europe, patients are admitted via doctor’s referrals or through the emergency departments.

One can find eight health centres which provide primary healthcare are available over the Maltese Islands, with seven in the mainland and one on the island of Gozo. Apart from general practitioners and nursing facilities and care, the health centres provide a range of services from proactive to reactive care. They cover a wide range of issues, from gynaecology clinics, ophthalmic clinics, psychiatric clinics, diabetes clinics, podiatric clinics, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and antenatal and postnatal clinics. In addition, secondary and tertiary care is also offered by public hospitals over the country as well.