Filenews 16 September 2024 - by Dora Christodoulou
There is no intensive care department at Pafos Hospital, despite continuous representations to the Cyprus Health Organization. It is inconceivable that in an entire province the services for intensive care are received remotely and specifically from Limassol.
These complaints were made by the MP of Pafos, Chrysanthos Savvides, who stresses that there is no intensive care expert at Pafos Hospital and therefore it is not possible for the intensive care department to function properly. Whenever necessary, an intensivist from Limassol is called, Mr. Savvides argued, an issue on which countless complaints and representations have been made to the competent authorities.
For this reason, they have baptized the DMS in Pafos as "open-ended intensive care", a term that is nowhere to be found in the medical literature.
The situation at Paphos Hospital is bordering on tragic, says Mr. Savvides, arguing that shortages of medical and paramedical staff, which are a general problem, are not the only ones at Paphos Hospital.
Here we are talking that they cannot operate, not an intensive care unit, but not even a canteen to serve the public, he denounces. For two years now, the hospital's canteen has been closed, he says, so if a visitor wants a bottle of water, he can't find it anywhere. Instead, he argues, they have installed a product machine in which you put coins to buy the limited items contained in the machine.
Even in this case, according to Mr. Savvidis, the machine works problematically, sometimes without having stock of products and more often "eating" customers' coins without delivering the product.
