Assumption or accountability and not excuses, is what is needed after what came to light in relation to the X-ray diagnostic departments within GenSY during yesterday's meeting of the Parliamentary Health Committee, suggests the Pancyprian Guild of Government Doctors.
As mentioned in yesterday's article, the Committee heard a lot of things before it. Kickbacks, excessive referrals, outdated systems.
Speaking before the relevant committee of the Parliament, the Head of the Department of Medical Physics of the OKYPY, Prodromos Kaplanis, said that in every two hundred full-body CT scans, one patient dies, and noted that many patients exposed to radiation get cancer. According to Mr. Kaplanis, there are no defined specifications for the machines, with the result -as he noted- a used machine costs 80 thousand euros and modern new machines cost one, two or more million euros, while depending on the value is the effectiveness or risk of a machine.
In a statement, PASYKI refers to two-speed equipment that can affect the quality of the results.
The doctors' statement:
After yesterday's meetings of the Parliamentary Health Committee where the
issues of the radiological diagnostic departments within the PESY were discussed, but also the problems that
plague the dialysis unit of Famagusta General Hospital, our concerns about the
health care system have intensified.[BR]The emergence and assumptions about the existence within the FGC of X-ray diagnostic equipment[BR]of different speeds, which can potentially affect the quality of[BR]results, the absence of a legislative framework for their operation and control, but at the [BR]same time they are allowed to provide services to patients, the obsolete[BR]dialysis machines which have been promised to be replaced[BR]many times, do not solve the problems of patients.
We need accountability or responsibility and not mere excuses and unfulfilled
promises.
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