Turkish Cypriot medical doctors on Friday warned of workers and infrastructure shortages at accident and emergency departments throughout the north as demand continues to rise.
Cyprus Turkish medical affiliation (KTTB) secretary-general Ceyhun Dalkan mentioned the state of affairs has “handed a important level” attributable to “irregularities” within the north’s inhabitants and the well being of these dwelling there, in addition to “insurance policies aimed toward saving the day” on the a part of the ‘authorities’.
“The variety of emergency drugs specialists at accident and emergency departments have to be elevated, accident and emergency departments have to be organised, and the necessity for normal practitioners have to be met urgently,” he mentioned.
He added that personnel gaps “have to be stuffed” in order that hospitals within the north can present a full 24-hour service at its accident and emergency departments and different hospital departments.
Gaps which have to be stuffed, he mentioned, embrace registration clerks, safety guards, doormen, laboratory and x-ray technicians, and porter companies.
With this in thoughts, he mentioned, there’s “chaos” at what he described as “inaccessible” public well being companies within the north.
He then mentioned the Cengiz Topel hospital in Lefka, the Akcicek hospital in Kyrenia, and the Famagusta hospital should all have their accident and emergency departments “strengthened” with the hiring of extra medical doctors and assist personnel.
“Medical doctors are drained and exhausted on this chaos, with this lack of any system, and with how busy we’re,” he mentioned, including that the issues on the north’s accident & emergency departments are “too severe to be ignored”.
“We’re on the similar time involved about our sufferers’ entry to healthcare and uninterested in being this busy. These main issues in accessing healthcare companies have to be a prime precedence for this authorities and particularly the well being ministry, and have to be resolved shortly,” he mentioned.
