Hemodialysis: "The machines are malfunctioning… Our health is in danger"

A new letter was sent by the representative of the dialysis patients of the Famagusta District, George Kkezos, to the Ministry of Health, to the Executive Director of OKYPY, and to the Director of the Famagusta Hospital Amalia Hatzigiannis.

The letter mentions the insufficient operation of the dialysis machines, stating that in the last month in 3 cases, machines stopped operating while patients were receiving treatment.

Mr. Kkezos asks those in charge to provide solutions within 10 days, otherwise they will refrain from their treatment.

Read the letter as it is:

"As the President of the Hemodialysis Unit of the province of Ammos, I would like to reiterate many previous protests that we had made, to express my dissatisfaction with the current situation that continues to prevail and plague the Hemodialysis Unit of Ammos Hospital.

Specifically, all the requests we have submitted so far have not been heard and we have not received any positive response from you. This makes me especially sad as President and as a Dialysis Officer, on behalf of all the Dialysis Patients in the province.

Therefore, it turns out that you do not recognize us as Famagusta and you do not share in the slightest the real needs of the Dialysis Patients for the support and the complete modernization that our Unit so desperately needs.

At this moment, lives are in danger of being lost every day and you will be solely responsible. As it is known, the Hemodialysis machines are under-functioning and specifically this month they have stopped 3 times while they were in operation on a Hemodialysis patient, endangering his health. Furthermore, it should be noted that these machines are second-hand devices that were transferred from the Hemodialysis Unit of the Nicosia General Hospital due to their replacement with new ones and they were transferred to the Famagusta Unit. Today these machines do not perform the treatment properly.

Anyone who has doubts about the above, please contact the hemodialysis doctors of the Unit in Famagusta to confirm it and we ask OKYPY to stop claiming that these machines are new. In addition, the representative of the company of these machines has informed the administration of the Am / Hospital that the deadline for the operation of the central machine has expired, which supplies all the machines, giving the administration in writing that it is not responsible for anything that happens.

In conclusion, as President of the Dialysis Unit of the province of Famagusta, I have an obligation at any time to report to you anything that happens in the Dialysis Unit and opposes the inalienable rights of the Dialysis patients who, unfortunately, find that they are being violated.

Our appeal is to stop some people who prevent certain Cypriot TV channels from reporting and presenting the existing problems in the Unit that are by nature impossible to hide. In Cyprus we do not have a martial law but a democratic regime with rights which the state must protect.

Please understand our pain and the Golgotha ​​we experience weekly.

* PS: We inform that within 10 days if we have not received a response from you, we will refuse our treatment for as many days as needed.

Sincerely, 

George Kkezos

President of Famagusta Kidney Diseases »