Minister of Health Mrs. Popi Kanari had a meeting with the leadership of the State Health Services Agency (OKYπY) today.
In her statements after the meeting, which she described as useful and constructive, Ms Kanari noted that the goal of all should be to improve and upgrade the health services offered. The people, she added, expect this improvement and OKYPY has an important role to play in this direction.
"We will weigh the difficulties faced by OKYPY, the support it needs from the government and from the Health Insurance Organisation in order to proceed with improvement actions," the minister noted.
She also stressed that there are highly qualified doctors and nurses, who should be properly utilised. "Through appropriate procedures and proper supervision, we must address all the problems that arise so as to achieve our goal, which is none other than the provision of quality services in our hospitals," Ms. Kanari pointed out.
She also said that there are too many challenges, with several bills already in the pipeline and what is paramount is to ensure that they are implemented with the appropriate institutional framework.
Asked whether priorities have been set in terms of the OCYPY, she said that the issue concerning the Accident and Emergency Departments must be addressed immediately. "We have recently seen bad incidents in the ICUs, an image which is not appropriate in our country and must be changed. We also need to look at the issues related to the pulmonology and pathology clinics and the general issue of supervision and protocol adherence in the GHS," he said. We will do everything, he concluded, to overcome the difficulties encountered in the implementation of procedures aimed at upgrading health services.
For his part, Cyprus Stavridis, the General Executive Director of OCYPY, said that they have explained to the Minister the strategic objectives of the Organization, its pillars of success, as well as the actions and upgrades they have already done or have already rolled out in relation to equipment and building infrastructure.
Finally, he assured the new Minister of Health that the Agency will be at her side for whatever is needed to help the Cypriot patient.
(DK)
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