Urgent State Health News in full

[Devil]

08-04-2020 09:58
Planning enabling SHSO and private hospitals to respond to various cases

In an effort to mitigate the situation at the hospitals of the State Health Services Organization and help them respond successfully and promptly to the new increased needs that have appeared due to the pandemic, the following decisions have been taken:

1. Redirection of patients to private medical centres

In the present state and in view of the readiness and availability that SHSO hospitals should have, private hospitals shall be treating:

Urgent cases through their accident and emergency departments, where patients will either be transferred there by ambulances or can directly go on their own,
Patients referred to them by SHSO hospitals and A&Es and they will also be carrying out urgent surgeries that cannot be performed at SHSO hospitals.

It is reiterated that the private hospitals shall be treating ONLY emergency cases, not non-urgent cases. The Ministry of Health will not assume the costs for patients who seek help from the private sector on their own and do not fall into the above categories.

It is also reiterated that suspected coronavirus cases are handled only by SHSO hospitals in compliance with the currently prescribed procedure, which has already been announced.

2. Appointments to Outpatient Departments of SHSO hospitals

As regards cancelled appointments in outpatient care, patients are urged to book appointments either directly with specialists that are under the National Health System or contact their personal physician (GP) for a referral or advice on what to do. Both GPs and specialists are obliged to serve these patients.

3. Scheduled surgery appointments in SHSO hospitals - urgent cases

Scheduled surgery appointments concerning urgent cases will be referred to the private sector by the attending doctors of the state hospitals.

With regard to cancelled scheduled surgery appointments concerning urgent cases or cases whose surgery cannot be postponed, the patients that have not yet been contacted have to call their attending doctors in SHSO hospitals to look into their case.

In the event they are not able to find their doctor, patients are urged to contact the Executive Director of the hospital of their district.

4. Scheduled surgery appointments to SHSO hospitals - non-urgent cases

As regards scheduled surgeries that are not urgent and have been cancelled, the patients will be given a new date by the SHSO hospital, where the surgery was scheduled to take place.

5. Scheduled surgery appointments to SHSO hospitals - non-urgent cases, whose situation has worsened or changed

Patients are advised to contact immediately their attending doctors at SHSO hospital or their GP or Gesy specialist doctors for further guidance.

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[Dominic]

Can you include a link to the source please.

[Kili01]

As Devil doesn’t reside in Paphos, wondering how accurate-this info may be for Paphos area?

Dee

[galexinda]

https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/04/08/coro ... JWdWkWLyk0

The private sector will be treating all urgent cases to allow state hospitals to be able to respond to increased needs due to the coronavirus pandemic, state health services organisation Okypy announced on Wednesday.

As part of the new arrangements, private hospitals will be treating urgent cases through their accident and emergency departments. Patients will either be transferred there by ambulances or can directly go there on their own.

[The Aquila]

As Devil doesn’t reside in Paphos, wondering how accurate-this info may be for Paphos area?

Dee

I guess the clue is already there....”State”

[memory man]

Here is a link to the posting......................


https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/state-p ... -covid-19/

[Devil]

As Devil doesn’t reside in Paphos, wondering how accurate-this info may be for Paphos area?

Dee

He does reside on Planet Earth, though

[Cheshire Lad]

Come on Dee. Put the knives away.

The content Of the article is island wide, and the fact that this has been shared with a board which operates out of his area/ bailiwick, is something to be thanked, not criticised.

It’s for all our benefit.

CL

[Devil]

I'm plonk in the centre, half way between the Paphos and Eastern forums, so I subscribe to both. Is that wrong, Dee? (Thanks to Cheshire Lad)