The wide-ranging meeting with all stakeholders including the OCYPY was completed.
The meeting has been completed but I want to mention to the people that our main objective is to get these on-call clinics up and running, because in this way the ordinary citizen who needs them so much will be served. We have listened carefully to all the stakeholders, we have heard some of the problems, and we have agreed that in the coming days there will be some additional meetings by the Ministry of Health to solve some of the problems that were discussed in today's session. Also regarding medical issues, we have agreed to set up a committee under the supervision of the Pancyprian Medical Association to look at all medical issues. It was also decided that we will have another meeting next Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Ministry, so that final decisions can be made and people can be told what we will do regarding the on-call clinics.
Have any timetables been set regarding the start date?
We will certainly know when the on-call clinics will be open next Wednesday. We have listened carefully to all the stakeholders, I have mentioned this before, and based on what we have heard, we will come up with appropriate solutions.
We had originally said that the on-call clinics would be open in early July. Does that timeline still stand?
Our goal as I mentioned at the meeting, we are certainly not talking about September as has come out in the past few days. If we are going to do the on-call clinics, we will definitely do them in the next few weeks.
What are the main issues that came out of the meeting?
There were some issues that have been resolved fortunately, there has been progress. There was a specific problem in terms of what medical procedures will be performed in these outpatient clinics, it has been clarified, there is another issue in terms of staffing the outpatient clinics, and this is an issue that we will study as the Ministry of Health.
Will the Patients' Federation be informed about the operation of these outpatient clinics?
We have known from the first day that I have been appointed Minister the view of patients, I will certainly inform them about this meeting. But we know and we want, like the Patients' Federation, the operation of these on-call clinics and we at the Ministry of Health.
I also want to thank the President of the Pancyprian Medical Association, my friend Petros Agathangelou. It was his intervention yesterday that was decisive in preventing this strike. Already under his chairmanship all medical issues concerning the on-call clinics will be examined.
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