Pharmacists on the Limassol common hospital on Monday known as an instantaneous strike over adjustments to the hospital’s prescribed drugs division’s administration construction.
The strike was known as by the pharmacists’ department of commerce union Isotita and can final for 48 hours.
The union stated state well being providers (Okypy) had given extra energy to the hospital’s government director and that this violated the related legal guidelines relating to how hospitals’ administration constructions are fashioned.
Nevertheless, Okypy insist that the adjustments are authorized and that the union is appearing with the hope of making a brand new “senior pharmacist” roles throughout the hospital, permitting these holding the title to be paid on the A13 scale and thus earn as a lot as €73,228 per yr.
Isotita’s pharmacists’ department chairwoman Evgenia Efstathiou was lower than satisfied, nonetheless, telling the Cyprus Information Company (CNA) the choice had been made as a substitute of hiring a head pharmacist, because the union had wished.
“Now we have been ready for 4 months relating to the matter of the absence of a head pharmacist, after which sadly, at lunchtime final Thursday, the pharmacy workers had been knowledgeable by the manager director that there could be many adjustments relating to the principles and duties of every pharmacist,” she stated.
She added that the manager director had “appointed himself in command of pharmacists”, and that this “is totally towards the regulation, because the organisation and administration of a hospital’s pharmacy is carried out solely by the top pharmacist as a requirement of the regulation”.
“The service plan so, as has been authorised by parliament. You’ll be able to’t simply arbitrarily get entangled with the operations of a hospital’s pharmacy. It is a specialised, scientific space, and solely a pharmacist is competent to make such choices,” she stated.
She confused that whereas it may be essential to vary the definition of some folks’s roles, “it is unnecessary to all of the sudden change everybody’s position and shuffle the deck and throw away no matter is finished, with out justification and with out the authority to take action.”
She went on to say that within the absence of a head pharmacist, “the pharmacy was working marginally, attempting to comply with procedures as safely as potential at a time when there was nobody there to make the intense choices.”
“Now we have been fortunate thus far that no incident occurred,” she added.
“Our union just isn’t asking for something however the apparent; the applying of the regulation, which could be very clear – that the organisation and operation of the pharmacy is the accountability of the top pharmacist, and that particular person can’t be somebody who just isn’t a pharmacist.”
Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou insisted that no regulation had been violated within the pharmacy’s reshuffle, and stated the hanging Isotita members “ought to learn the regulation”.
“The chief director has each proper to take the actions he has. If the union’s opinion is that the manager director has no authority, we are able to think about what is going to occur throughout the board if anybody can declare their supervisor or administration workforce and even the human assets division has no proper relating to the organisation and administration of assorted departments,” he stated.
He added, “it’s like abolishing directorates and leaving them as self-governing little kingdoms, which works towards the entire philosophy of administration does whereas on the identical time driving up prices as a result of then we should create new senior positions like those they’ve requested for.”
Moreover, he stated, Okypy has provided pharmacists on the A12 payscale, incomes as much as €66,360 per yr, to tackle the duties of operating hospitals’ pharmacies, however “sadly all of them refused”.
He added that the Limassol common hospital’s pharmacy’s operations have “not been notably affected” by the strike so far.
