The third day of application of the General Health System, in the public hospitals, is progressing smoothly.
Despite the delays and queues at registrations and pharmacies, scheduled doctor appointments are proceeding normally.
It is noted that in some of the public hospitals both patient registration procedures are in progress for better service of the citizens, while there are delays and difficulties due to the software, as it takes a few days until both the people and the doctors get acquainted with it. new system.
The situation prevailing in the Health Centers
During a visit of philenews to a Health Center in the capital, we were told by a doctor in charge that a new employee was sent this morning, who also deals with patient appointments. He also noted that the appointments that came in today are fewer, in order to cope.
In addition, it seems that some difficulties are identified, but also delays due to the software to go through the patient's history, medications, etc. Due to the delay, this equates to each doctor having to see three patients to do everything right and be explained As it should be.
As pointed out to philenews, the training provided for the software of the Personal Doctors, for the medicines and for the laboratory examinations, is little.
At the same time, people seem to be complaining about the delay in their appointments.
PASYKI: Doctors will help the success of GESS
"Doctors will do what they can for the success of the new reform in the context of the working conditions provided by the employer side," said in a statement to KYPE the President of PASYKI Sotiris Koumas.
He added that the chronic problems faced by public hospitals and technical problems from the new environment with the implementation of the General Health Plan are a cause for concern.
Mr. Koumas also explained that the doctors will try to work within the conditions provided by the employer, while wishing every success in the system, which, as he said, is something that the State and the Cypriot citizen expected.
P. Agathangelou: The citizen will be judged by the GESS
At the same time, in his statements to RIK, the President of the PIS, Petros Agathangelou, said that the GESS will be judged by the citizen, testing him, reiterating that Cyprus needs a health system without discrimination.
"PIS has stressed that the proposed plan will have its drawbacks, issues which are inevitable," he added.
The GESS in numbers from the first day of application
A total of 735 visits to doctors were recorded on Saturday, while 197 simple prescriptions and 231 repeated prescriptions were issued. Of these, 172 had been executed in pharmacies. About 120 referrals were also issued for biochemical, hematological, immunological and microbiological tests.
Yesterday afternoon and while the process of registering an additional number of doctors in the system was in progress, there were 364 personal doctors for adults available in the lists of GESS and the completion of the process was pending for another 50. There were also 110 pediatricians available and the procedure for about 10 other pediatricians, and 216 specialist doctors of all specialties, but again the process for completing the registration was pending for hundreds of public and private sector doctors. In fact, some private specialists had been summoned to the OAU yesterday to sign their contracts.
In terms of the number of available pharmacies, it has reached 441 private pharmacies and the completion of the process is pending for another 50, while several radiodiagnostic centers from all cities have already been included in the GESS lists.
The Health Insurance Organization, as reported by "F", would continue to enter data into the system throughout the night, as had happened the previous two nights. Finally, until yesterday afternoon, more than 520.000 citizens had registered with the GESS.
Source: philenews