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By Nicolas Peter Kaparti
The legal dispute between a private doctor and the Health Insurance Organization for the prohibition -which has been in force since 1 November - for the practice of services by doctors not contracted to the GHS in hospitals integrated into the system, following a request by the OAS legal advisers to give them new time to prepare the tension they will file before the court.
A relevant source from OAI told the Cyprus Times that the organisation's legal advisers have asked for more time and are expected by early next week to file an objection to the lawsuit filed by the private doctor.
- "No" private hospitals to OAI "compliance" letter
- OAI prepares objection after doctor sues outside GHS. Deadline of 24/11 by the Court
According to the same source, the court will have to make two decisions. One on the private doctor's lawyer's request for (interim measures) withdrawal of the ban in question until the case is heard and a second one concerning the whole case, in which it will decide whether or not the ban in question should be put in place.
At the same time, as we have been informed, it is possible that the court may rule that it does not have jurisdiction to hear the case in question.
Therefore, until the court makes its decisions, the OAS ban on the practice of health services by doctors who are outside the GHS in hospitals contracted with the System remains in force.
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