With time running out and December 31 no longer far away, the government and the State Health Services Organization today reaffirmed their plan for state hospitals to be led, seven years after the establishment of OKYPY, to their financial autonomy.
What the state owes to OKYPY, in terms of the Services of General Economic Interest and Public Health, were also put on the table during the meeting held in the afternoon at the Presidential Palace under the President of the Republic.
At the same time, the representatives of the Organization raised additional financial issues before Nikos Christodoulides and the Ministers of Finance and Health. They mainly concern the burdens of the public service that OKYPY inherited during its establishment, for which its leadership has complained many times both publicly and at the level of meetings in competent parliamentary committees.
The main subject of discussion, however, was the development projects of €126 million. that are in progress in state hospitals and health centers with OKYPY informing the Government about their course and its next steps.
As far as the Mental Health Services and the second phase of the Athalassa hospital are concerned, as we are informed, the process is at the stage of a viability study. The works at Makarios Hospital are in full swing, while in the past few days meetings were held with the private body that undertook the creation of the new paediatric oncology department.
As far as the Polis Chrysochous hospital is concerned, OKYPY assures that the procedures are proceeding according to planning.
