Well being Minister Michael Damianos stated on Friday he expects a decision to the present drug shortages by early subsequent week, including that the well being ministry is in fixed talks with related officers in Greece, together with Deputy Minister of Well being Marios Themistokleous.
Furthermore, he additionally stated he would search updates from the well being state companies (Okypy) concerning the deliberate pharmacists’ strike subsequent week.
“We have to keep labour peace, particularly in hospitals” he stated. “We’ll request info from Okypy to know how this situation may be resolved.”
Damianos acknowledged the fixed difficulties confronted by smaller EU nations like Cyprus, which wrestle to draw pharmaceutical corporations, leading to each drug shortages and worth disparities.
“This can be a drawback confronted by all small EU nations, not simply Cyprus. We’re working throughout the EU framework to discover a resolution for each provide and pricing of medication,” Damianou stated.
“It’s unfair for smaller nations to pay considerably extra for medicines in comparison with bigger or extra developed nations, and this isn’t one thing Cyprus can resolve by itself.”
When requested about latest labour disputes and the efforts to achieve a everlasting decision, Damianos reiterated that, whereas the ministry oversees Okypy, it doesn’t have the facility to interchange it.
“The ministry’s function is to mediate between elements when points come up,” he stated. “We imagine that labour issues must be resolved by Okypy and the unions themselves, and the faster these points are resolved, the extra successfully state hospitals can function.”
Damianos made statements throughout the inauguration of the brand new dialysis unit at St George’s hospital in Paphos, the place he harassed the constructive influence of recent healthcare services.
The unit is totally built-in into the nationwide well being scheme Gesy and is supplied with 11 dialysis stations.
“It’s all the time helpful to see new installations within the healthcare sector, as they improve the standard of companies,” he stated.
“I’m notably please to be inaugurating services in areas exterior the capital.
“Fashionable dialysis know-how ensures that healthcare professionals have entry to gear that meets stringent high quality and security requirements, permitting for exact and dependable dialysis classes,” Damianos added.
He additionally underlined the difficulties confronted by sufferers affected by power kidney ailments (CKD).
“The influence of CKD is in depth, affecting sufferers bodily and psychologically. Because the illness progresses to its remaining stage, sufferers require fast help by means of hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. This is the reason the opening of the brand new unit is of paramount significance,” he stated.
For sufferers present process dialysis, the therapy calls for frequent visits to the dialysis unit, adherence to a strict remedy routine, and quite a few dietary and fluid consumption restrictions, all of which considerably have an effect on their way of life and psychological well being.
Throughout his speech, Damianou additionally reiterated the significance of collaboration between the private and non-private sectors in healthcare, stressing that such partnerships “are important for offering well timed and high-quality companies to sufferers and for the general enchancment of healthcare provision.”
“I need to commend the hospital employees for his or her helpful contribution to delivering high-level healthcare companies to the group. And need them my finest for his or her continued success in serving the sufferers,” the minister concluded.
