The doctors of the Emergency Departments and Accident Departments of the public hospitals have reached their limits and are facing professional and mental burnout, said the director of the ICU of Limassol General Hospital and member of the PASYKI Board, Dr. In her statements to the media, on the occasion of today's three-hour work stoppage, Dr. Ioannidou said that understaffing is a long-standing problem, "but it has worsened especially in recent months," noting that, "the doctors of the ICU have not even taken leave during the last three years of the pandemic."
He noted that the problem intensifies when, due to health problems, doctors need to take sick leave, and indicated that the OCYP management "has been informed many times by the directors of the departments about the understaffing."
"All procedures are delayed, there is no organization," Dr. Ioannidou, citing as an example the case of a doctor of the Limassol General Hospital's CICU, who left on April 4 and the vacancy notice was announced ten days ago.
Apart from the risk to the safety of patients' health, she continued, there is also the issue of the health of doctors and nurses "who have reached their limits". The doctors of the TPAs, she said, "are in dire straits, with professional and mental burnout."
Asked about this, she said that none of the demands have been answered by the OCYP, and "the icing on the cake comes with the termination of the contracts of the doctors who were on call for short-stay hospitalization."
As a result, he pointed out, doctors in the ICU are in several cases forced to leave their position in the emergency room to examine patients with coronavirus who are in another area of the public hospitals.
Finally, he said that if there is no response to the demands of the doctors, "yes, we will take further measures" and that, "coming out with announcements and declaring that everything is honey milk, does not give authority to anyone."
Source: CNA
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