Opposition Akel on Wednesday referred to as out President Nikos Christodoulides and his authorities for what it calls a failure to repair the issues within the well being system, Gesy, which the celebration mentioned was on the point of collapse.
Gesy has been plagued since its inception in 2019 with abuses of the system and complaints about understaffing, labour disputes, ready lists and different points.
Throughout a information convention on Wednesday, Akel general-secretary Stefanos Stefanou mentioned no matter unfavorable developments occurs to the well being sector would be the duty of the president and his cohorts and so they should be held accountable.
“We’re on the point of system collapse and we try to sound the alarm, earlier than it occurs as a result of as soon as it occurs, it is going to be too late to reverse it,” Stefanou mentioned.
“The president and the minister of well being should lastly give clear solutions on how they consider the state of affairs and the work of [hospitals operator] Okypy and what they’ll do to resolve the issues.”
He mentioned they should “cease hiding”.
In keeping with Stefanou, Akel despatched two letters to the president, one in November 2023, and one other in Might 2024 outlining the issues that must be resolved relating to public well being points. “We bought no response,” he mentioned.
“The federal government, regardless of the various advisers and commissioners it has appointed and who’re being paid for by the taxpayer, they didn’t reply to even certainly one of our letters,” Stefanou added.
Stefanou mentioned it was worrying that for a while now, varied non-public traders have been shopping for hospitals, imaging centres and laboratories, “aggressively interfering within the map of public well being”.
On the identical time, public hospitals, he mentioned, “stay with out construction and with out ample staffing on account of which they’re regularly withering away”. He additionally mentioned the psychological well being providers have obtained completely no help.
“Okypy, as an alternative of turning to everlasting, efficient options is resorting to outsourcing,” Stefanou mentioned.
He recommended maybe the plan was to “dismantle the system”, in order that those that needed to see a multi-insurance system from the beginning would possibly get their want. “This is able to imply these with cash can have medical protection and people with out cash will die exterior the door of the hospital,” he mentioned.
“Akel doesn’t wish to attain a state of affairs that can daybreak in the future the place they’ll inform us, you realize, there isn’t a different method, the set-up of Gesy should change,” he added. “Is the president listening to us? I extremely doubt it.”
Stefanou is demanding from the board of Okypy “to desert its authoritarian attitudes” and instantly inform the parliamentary events concerning the highway map for the modernisation and reorganisation course of, in addition to the strategic planning, with particular implementation schedules.
