We contemplate it our obligation as a state to make sure the supply of high quality and specialised companies to residents and to make sure their well timed entry to them, the President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulidis, stated on Monday in his greeting on the opening ceremony of the Pan-Cypriot Trauma Heart on the Basic Hospital Nicosia.
In accordance with the info reported through the opening ceremony, since September 19, 2022, the Trauma Heart has handled 530 injured individuals of which 125 have been in essential situation and of which 107 have been rescued.
It was additionally introduced that from subsequent Monday, the operation of the Ambulance Service's fast response crew of rescue machines (bikes) for fast response to essential incidents throughout peak visitors hours.
President Christodoulidis stated in his greeting that the inauguration of the Pancypriot Trauma Heart is “someday milestone” for the Nicosia Basic Hospital, noting that it’s a trendy Heart, which focuses on offering specialised care to sufferers, “one thing that was lacking”. . “You know the way necessary it’s for all these accidents to have a right away response,” he added. So, he continued, “a very powerful takeaway from right now's occasion is that we will reply rather more shortly with what this entails for the lives of our fellow human beings who’ve this want.”
The operation of the Heart, stated President Christodoulidis, “involves fill a void”. He then congratulated all those that contributed to this effort, the Basic Director of the Ministry of Well being, Christina Giannaki, the Nationwide Trauma Committee, and the medical workers “for the outcomes”.
President Christodoulidis additionally talked about that the well being sector along with that of training “represent a very powerful sectors” for his Authorities. “These are two areas the place the state has a main duty to supply all its residents the identical accessibility and, above all, high quality companies,” he stated.
“Individuals-centered insurance policies are the primary part of our selections and actions, and I guarantee you that the promotion of such tasks is excessive on our priorities,” he added.
“We contemplate it our obligation as a state to make sure the supply of high quality and specialised companies to residents and to make sure their well timed entry to them,” he famous.
Referring to the implementation of the NHS, which, as he stated, is “probably the most necessary social reforms for the reason that founding of the Republic” and which “opened new avenues within the provision of well being companies”. As a Authorities, he stated, “we intend not solely to protect it, however to improve it, to guard it, to strengthen it much more, with our important aim – and on this effort we should work collectively, on how we strengthen extra the companies supplied and the operation of the Heart is the aim it serves, it strengthens the companies supplied”.
He additionally famous that he “completely” agrees with what was talked about through the occasion, “that OKYPY and, by extension, our public hospitals are for the tough, timeless”.
In his greeting, the Minister of Well being, Michalis Damianos, stated that the operation of the Pancypriot Trauma Heart, “constitutes a milestone within the system of recent remedy of trauma incidents in our nation”.
“The continual gaps within the remedy of trauma in our nation and the consecutive variety of accidents highlighted as an absolute necessity the much more well timed and specialised intervention within the administration of those incidents”, he famous.
From the info he receives from the trauma file, he stated, “evidently for nearly two years the operation of the Heart has contributed essentially the most.” For a major interval, earlier than the operation of the Trauma Heart on the Nicosia Basic Hospital (03/2021-09/2022), he stated, the length of hospitalization of wounded with a major diploma of damage severity in a ward was simply over 20 days.
After the operation of the Trauma Heart and for the corresponding time interval (09/2022-04/2024), this length was lowered to fifteen days. Accordingly, he stated, the length of hospitalization for accidents with a larger diploma of severity is displaying a “lowering development”, the place it decreased from 38 days to simply underneath 17 days.
As well as, he stated, 1,628 circumstances of blunt trauma and 96 trauma circumstances have been handled on the Nicosia Hospital in a interval of 21 months, from September 19, 2022 to April 4, 2024. He additionally stated that 530 circumstances have been handled by the Trauma Heart. Of those, 97.19% have survived, whereas mortality is 2.81% of those incidents, in comparison with 3.45% of the corresponding earlier interval, the Minister stated.
“The operation of the Trauma Heart affords sufferers direct entry to high quality well being companies on the idea of worldwide protocols”, he added, whereas the institution and operation of the Nationwide Trauma Committee, with its current structure, strengthens the sensation of safety when it comes to scientific method to the topic.
Initially of the occasion, Archbishop George carried out a consecration. Additionally current on the occasion have been the Minister of Defence, Vassilis Palmas, the Authorities Spokesman, Konstantinos Letympiotis, the President and members of the Parliamentary Well being Committee, medical doctors and workers of the Trauma Heart, amongst others.
