Hiring nursing staff at ‘Evangelismos’ will continue to the end of the month, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said in social media post on Monday after attending the swearing-in ceremony of 35 new nurses at the major hospital.
“Ten days ago another 73 were hired, and a total of 165 nurses will have been sworn in by the end of the month,” the health minister said in his post. “This strengthens the hospital staff in pracival ways so that we may be able to use more surgeries and better serve our patients in all departments and during hospital on-call days,” he added.
The minister said he had paid a visit also to the hospital management and all emergency-care departments, speaking with staff and patients on the problems they face. “My main goal during my appointment is to reduce the waiting time when the hospital is on call as much as possible, with improved and faster care for patients, and to strengthen infrastructure,” Georgiadis said, noting that upgrade work on Evangelismos’ emergency-care departments will start immediately.
“The goal in the coming months is to have a better National Health System at all levels – and we will succeed!,” he asserted.
SOURCE; ANA-MPA
