In statements following the visit, Plevris said that "we visited the Cyprus Reference Hospital with the Minister of Health and really congratulate the staff for all the work they have done. As far as we know it was the flagship of covid treatment, but I think that the facilities, the staff and the operation will enable us, what we are launching today with the Minister and the Director General, the new cooperation in the part of hospitals between Greece and Cyprus."
Plevris added that "the tightness of the heart that you feel when you see Famagusta from the windows of the Hospital[/B] is something that certainly creates a great shiver in anyone who visits the Hospital".
For his part, Health Minister Michael Hadjipandela said that "every time I come here I feel pride and emotion. Pride for our staff, for our heroes who bring us face to face every day in the battle with coronavirus and at the same time emotion because from the balcony of the hospital I see our enslaved Famagusta."
Hadjipandela expressed his thanks to his "friend Thanos who is here today" and noted that "our cooperation has been excellent from day one. We will work together for the good of both Cyprus and Greece and the patients above all."
During the visit of the Minister of Health and the President of EODY Greece, Director General of the Ministry of Health Christina Giannaki made an extensive report on the operation of the Famagusta General Hospital which operates as a Reference Hospital for patients with coronavirus.
She also informed about the Eden Rehabilitation Centre that operates in Tersefanou and the new wing that operates at the Centre for Post Covid patients.
This was followed by the signing of a Memorandum for the formation of a common front in the protection of health in Greece and Cyprus, for the development and strengthening of scientific cooperation between the two countries on issues of mutual interest, while a framework for cooperation was adopted.
The Memorandum was signed by the Director General of the Ministry of Health Christina Giannaki and the President of the National Public Health Organization (EODY) Theoklis Zaoutis.
Signing the Memorandum, Mrs. Giannaki said that the signing of the Memorandum was "for the formation of a common front, for the protection of public health, the development and strengthening of scientific cooperation between Greece and Cyprus on issues of mutual interest, while we will have a close framework of cooperation."
For his part, Mr. Zaoutis said that "behind the coronavirus pandemic was the silent pandemic of hospital-acquired infections and resistance. Greece and Cyprus share a lot of data on this issue, there is room for improvement and I hope that together we can achieve these goals of improvement, reduction of morbidity and deaths in our hospitals from hospital-acquired infections."
The Ministers of Cyprus and Greece signed the visitors' book of the Famagusta General Hospital
Thanos Plevris wrote in the book that "the covid-19 pandemic demonstrated that no matter how good the facilities of a hospital are, its soul is its women and men, doctors and nurses. We thank them."
Moreover, Michael Hadjipandela wrote that "I feel pride and emotion in every visit. On the one hand the excellent work of the staff that makes us proud and on the other hand the view of our Famagusta". Zaoutis, the Scientific Director of the Larnaca Famagusta General Hospitals Amalia Hatzigianni and their entourage, visited the Pediatric Department of the Hospital, where they saw the occupied Famagusta.
Source: KYPE
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