The Health Insurance Organization has closely monitored all operations and other medical procedures carried out and registered in the NHS software, as part of its general effort to manage abuses.
In several cases phenomena are detected which cause particular concern and the OAU intervenes where and where deemed necessary. Moreover, the fact that the 2022 data showed that within a year 90.500 operations were performed within the system, which accounts for approximately one in ten of its beneficiaries GeSY, is itself thought provoking as many of these interventions could potentially be avoided.
Indicative of the behavior of some doctors (certainly not of the majority) within the system, the case of a gynecologist who, according to a woman's report, subjected her to continuous surgical operations and pressured her to proceed with a hysterectomy, with the result that she was referred to another Gynecologist of the NHS who assured her that there is no reason to undergo such surgery.
The doctor, according to her, initially told her that all women who receive a certain medicinal preparation every six months undergo surgery for a biopsy because the endometrium is thickening.
She herself underwent a related operation because, as the gynecologist had informed her, the endometrium was 5 mm. Four months later, the woman visited her gynecologist again, who, she claims, once again told her about "need for biopsy operation". The Pap test followed four months later and again the doctor during the examination referred to a thick endometrium, telling her to remove the uterus "so that we don't have this problem all the time". The woman refused and a month later, when she visited a doctor of another specialty who was following her, she informed him about it. This doctor changed the woman's medication, assuring her that now she will not have a problem with the endometrium. Two months later she visited her gynecologist again who again told her that the uterus would have to be removed.
After three months, he advised her to undergo another operation for a biopsy because, as she had been told, the endometrium had reached 8.5 mm. The woman visited another gynecologist who assured her that she was not facing any problems at all and the endometrium was at 3mm.
As the president of the Cypriot Federation of Patient Associations reported to "F".Charalambos Papadopoulos, "this is an example and we must say that from time to time, not very often, similar reports come to OSAK from citizens about certain doctors of various specialties".
As we have said many times as OSAK "those who can determine the way in which the NHS will be safeguarded and protected from any behaviors, are ourselves the patients. Even if it is not possible to impose a fine or punishment on a provider who clearly intends to take advantage of the system financially, when the OAU is aware of certain situations, it certainly increases the intensity of the controls it carries out. We certainly shouldn't level everything and not trust the doctors who attend us and seek to be seen by a second and third doctor because that would be a huge mistake. We have to trust our doctors, but I emphasize and think that we all have common sense to understand something that doesn't seem so right to us."
Source: Philenews