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Work stoppage announced by PASYKI for next Friday, in protest against the understaffing of the Accident and Emergency Department of the Paphos General Hospital. The voices of the government doctors were refuted by the OKYPY, stressing that there is no understaffing in this department and pointing out that 2 positions were advertised.
Speaking to the Cyprus Times, the president of the Pancyprian Guild of Government Doctors Sotiris Koumas, called on the press spokesman of the OCYPY Haralambos Harilaou to go - as he said - to the hospitals on the spot to measure the number of doctors.
"9 doctors for the range of Paphos province are certainly not enough. In addition to the Pafos General Hospital's PAPS, there is understaffing in the Limassol and Larnaca hospitals as well," Koumas noted.
Responding to the doctors' cries, Charalambos Harilaou explained that 9 positions have already been advertised and two of them are for the Pafos PAPS, adding that there is no problem in other hospitals. "The 9 positions were advertised before PASYKI announced the work stoppage, so we see no reason for the work stoppage," Harilaou clarified.
"The answer that positions have been advertised for the recruitment of doctors for the TAPs does not satisfy us since the problems have existed for quite some time," he said.Kumas.
PASYNO rails against OKYPY and PASYNO "They hide problems under the carpet"
While the race between doctors and OKYPY is raging, nurses are warning of action protesting incidents of violence against them in TAPs.
Speaking to the Cyprus Times, PASYNO spokesman Theodoros Petelis stresses that in the next incident of violence against them, nurses will be withdrawn from their specific position, i.e. the triage of ICU patients.
"It is a daily occurrence to be assaulted during working hours and although we have sent several letters to those responsible there is no intention to correct the problem. They are hiding the problem under the carpet, with the result that the patient pays for it."
At the same time, Petelis stressed that nurses are subjected to terrible psychological and physical fatigue, and indicated that they feel unprotected.
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