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The programme for the transportation of pupils by bus to schools in the Strovolos region starts today, President of the Republic Nicos Christodoulides said.
Speaking to reporters after his visit to the Acropolis High School, and to a journalist's remark that traffic on the roads is a serious problem, which is magnified with the opening of schools, the President of the Republic said: "Yesterday at the Council of Ministers I asked the Minister of Transport to inform me - because I have heard it and experienced it myself, more in the afternoon when I had to go to some events outside Nicosia both yesterday and the day before yesterday - and there was serious traffic.
What we agreed yesterday, and the Minister will mention publicly, is that at the end of the month there will be an assessment - because, you understand, it takes a few days to do an assessment - and if any necessary corrective action arises that we need to do, you can be sure that we will do it.
Traffic is a problem that is particular to Nicosia and Limassol, not to say that the other provinces don't have it. It is one of the most important problems, it is something we are concerned about.
We are starting today, for example, for the 12 schools in Strovolos, we have offered a bus. It is a pilot project, which we want to extend to all schools in Nicosia and then throughout the whole country, which we believe will address the problem of traffic, traffic as it arises on a daily basis."
In response to a journalist's remark that in relation to the GESY and the sending of patients abroad, people fear that it will create bureaucratic issues, the President said: "The change will be made, it is provided for in the law, it will be implemented when we are sure that it can be implemented. At the same time, I had made a statement to that effect and referred to a very small amount of money that can be left in the Ministry of Health for emergencies. If we see that a problem arises, just so that lives are not lost, they can be serviced from that line item. But the implementation of the law will be done and the entire amount will be transferred in relation to patient dispatches when we feel and see in practice that it works under the OAI."
To another question he said that most of this amount "will be transferred to the OAI. Just because there is the concern, the worry, until this works, until we are sure it works, there is that amount, which over time has been in the Ministry of Health and is under the authority of the Minister of Health at the time."
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