Health Minister optimistic about a solution with doctors at Thursday's meeting – “We need to close it down” he stressed – “There has been a strike, which could have been avoided, but we need to look ahead”
The Minister of Health expressed his optimism that the differences with public doctors will be resolved and a holistic solution will be found, at a meeting scheduled for next Thursday, Michalis Damianos.
In his statements in Limassol, on the sidelines of the 9th Pan-Cypriot Congress of Pathology, the Minister was asked to comment on a report by the President of PASYKI strong>, Dr. Sotiris Koumas, that he expects answers by Friday, clarifying that “we will meet again, next Thursday, in my office, to discuss how we can cooperate in order to end this situation that has been created”.
< p>“The strike measures, as you know, have been suspended and I am sure that we will find a solution next Thursday,” he said, noting that “there will be a discussion, obviously we will also submit something, because as I have said, I believe that there is some compromise formula with which we can continue.”Asked whether he was optimistic, Mr. Damianos said that “I am very optimistic that we will find a solution” and added that “there has been a strike, which could have been avoided, but we must look ahead”.
The future of public hospitals lies with OKYpY, he continued, and “doctors are the real potential, the first horses that the Organization says, so that it can move forward”. “We must not make patients suffer and so we must find a solution and I am sure that we will find it”, he added.
Asked whether the solution will be holistic, the Minister of Health underlined that “the solution cannot be anything but holistic and I am sure that the holistic solution will solve the problems and in any case there has been some discussion about it. this holistic solution and within this framework we will move forward”.
“We must close it, we must end (the issue). Of course there is also the financial part, there is also the part of the future and we must see how we will ensure labor peace, not for months, but for years”, concluded Michalis Damianos in his statement.
