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Pafos Mayor Faidonas Faidonos described the fact that every day several children from the city are sent by ambulances to other cities for treatment as a "catastrophe", as he noted, there are only four beds out of the sixteen beds in the paediatric department at Paphos General Hospital.
The Cyprus Times speaking to a competent source from Paphos Hospital confirmed the fact
that the department is understaffed
. We were told that at the moment there are seven of the twenty-two beds and how indeed some children have been sent for care to Limassol Hospital
This is happening, according to the same source, as work is being done
in the orthopaedic department whose patients have been transferred to the paediatric department while those in the paediatric department have gone to the gynaecology department. This involveswork to restore the oxygen system and general equipment located in the patients' rooms.
This work, we were told,was justifiably delayed due to the coronavirus however it is expected that in the middle of next month it will be completed and the hospital will be back to its pristine condition.
It is worth noting that the rearrangements of patients had taken place when a ward had to be "opened" to care for patients with coronavirus.
The Cyprus Times attempted to take the position of the OCYPY on the matter but reserved the right to take a position at a later stage by issuing a statement.
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