Government’s inactivity and anti-social policies have driven the health sector to a dead-end
Statement by Athos Georgiou, Head of the Health Bureau of the C.C. of AKEL
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 26th January 2017, Nicosia
The trade unions of government doctors and nurses have once again raised their voice of despair about the terrible situation in the health sector.
Their voice of despair is also shared by citizens, who are experiencing on a daily basis the enormous problems in the public health sector, as regards the long waiting lists and the great shortages in staff and infrastructure.
The government, despite all the appeals made for it to support the public health sector and public hospitals, leaves them to be constantly downgraded, breaking its own commitments and promises which it makes from time to time.
The situation has reached an impasse. Hospitals are collapsing and the government is exhausting its energies by conducting studies without taking any effective action.
Really, how will hospitals become autonomous when they are seemingly collapsing? How will the General Health Scheme be established with state hospitals representing its backbone, as the government is claiming?
The government’s responsibilities for the dreadful situation in the health sector are grave. In the four years it has been in power, not only did the government do nothing, but as a result of its inactivity and anti-social policies implemented they have driven the health sector to a dead-end.
Really, how to become autonomous hospitals when they are in tatters? How to create the GHS backbone with the state hospitals, as the government claims?
The responsibilities of the government for the miserable situation in the health sector is very heavy. Four years in power, not only did nothing but their inertia and health led their unpopular decisions in a large swamp.
AKEL is always willing to help towards creating a quality and universal General Health Scheme, but the government isn’t helping itself and it is society that is society that is suffering the costs.
