The Parliament unanimously approved the budget of the National Health Services Agency for 2023, which is in deficit.
A report of the Parliamentary Health Committee on the matter states that the budget of the OKYPY for the year 2023 foresees a total expenditure of €725.915,015 and revenues of €659,934,758, which will come from government sponsorship (€27,820,000), Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI), Public Health Services and Services to Competent Authorities (€92.180,000), as well as from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (€19,500,000), the provision of outpatient health care (€70,000,000), the provision of inpatient health care (€255,000.000), patient enrolment in the personal physicians of the OHCHR (€15,160,000), reimbursement for phase B medicines of the PPA (€126,000,000), and from other sources (€54,280,000).
The budgeted expenditure of the OHCHR for the year 2023 mainly concerns staff salaries (€77,510.000), which are intended to cover posts for staffing the organisation, new posts for administrative, medical, paramedical, secretarial and accounting staff, which will help the organisation to operate in the fully competitive environment of the GHS through the creation of proper structures with qualified staff and knowledge to enable the organisation to meet the requirements of the relevant legislative framework, and posts for existing staff who will leave the civil service and sign a contract with the organisation.
In addition, the budgeted expenditure of the CFCA for the year 2023 mainly concerns incentives (€8,940.000) to personal physicians to register a number of beneficiaries so that the organisation can generate income from the Health Insurance Agency (HIA), while linking productivity to the remuneration of personal physicians,to medical specialists in relation to inpatient and outpatient health care, as provided for in the organisation's agreement with the doctors' guilds, and on a horizontal basis in relation to indicators of achievement of targets per clinic.
In addition, expenditure relates to hourly staff (€46,000,000), operating costs (€197,470,000), maintenance and repairs (€19.570,000), consultancy services (€258,280,000), purchase of fixed and mobile machinery (€29,530,000), purchase of mechanical and electronic equipment (€18,930,000) and construction, extension and improvement of buildings (€74,800,000).
According to the information submitted to the Commission by the Ministry of Health, since the budget of the OCYP for the year 2023 is in deficit, the Board of Directors of the OCYP intends to seek, as far as possible, savings in its operating costs and an increase in its revenues.
MPs from DISY and DIPA welcomed the projects launched by OKYPY and expressed support for OKYPY's efforts to upgrade public hospitals. They also said that in the midst of a pandemic, the hospitals and staff were accomplishing their mission and welcomed the rolling out of a children's CICU. MPs from the EPP criticized various issues concerning the OCYP, but welcomed the implementation soon of the daily care unit for cancer patients at Larnaca Hospital, a request that, it was reported, had been pending for years.
Source: KYPE
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