The State Health Services Organization (OKYPY) gave instructions for a full investigation in relation to the complaint about the death of a 41-year-old man with sickle cell anemia at the Famagusta General Hospital on Wednesday.
"Until we have the results, we ask you not to make any conclusions, which do not help the smooth conduct of the investigation", notes OKYpY in its briefing.
According to the complaint in the newspaper "O Phileleftheros" the patient died "waiting for the doctors to decide on who would take care of him".
The complaint was made by the National Committee for Thalassemia and other Hemoglobin Diseases and the Pancypriot Association of Sickle Cell and Micro-Sickle Anemia, which stated that the doctors "although they did everything humanly possible to save his life, they had neither the necessary knowledge nor the relevant expertise to act immediately and effectively", pointing out at the same time that, while the OKYPY has been given the necessary scientific guidelines for dealing with these patients, it seems that these have never reached the doctors of the Accident and Emergency Departments so that they know how to which they must act when the need arises.
Source: KYPE