The Board of Directors of the Hospital Laboratories Branch decided to go on a 24-hour strike, at the Clinical Laboratory of Limassol General Hospital on Monday 18/04/2022, due to the chronic issue of not staffing the Clinical Laboratory with auxiliary staff during the evenings, weekends and holidays. In addition, the auxiliary staff who were serving during regular working hours and have not yet been replaced.
According to a statement, the decision has received the approval of the Central Secretariat of the Organization.
It is noted that the issue of staffing with auxiliary staff has been discussed with the Limassol Directorate of the Limassol Health Insurance Institution for the last three years without any attempt to resolve it.
As stated, at the Clinical Laboratory of the Limassol General Hospital during non-standard working hours a single laboratory scientist serves and is responsible for 2 sections of the laboratory.
"In addition to his scientific work, which is the processing of laboratory tests, their evaluation and their release to the clinical area, he is forced to perform auxiliary tasks and tasks of computerization of tests," it adds.
The workload, it is noted, has increased dramatically to the point where there is a risk that we can no longer cope with our scientific duties and continue to provide quality health and care services.
In addition, it is reported, there are long delays in the release of results to the Hospital's Clinics and consequently in the timely diagnosis of patients and the rapid discharge of patients from the ICU.
Please note that on the day of the Blood Bank strike there will be security staff in the Clinical Laboratory.
The Branch expresses its apologies to the patients, nursing and medical staff and asks for their understanding and support so that the Clinical Laboratories of the Public Hospitals can continue to offer their quality services in Public Health.
Source: CNA
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