Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, explained the way the NHS works through X, responding to the complaints of ND MP, Yiannis Kallianou, regarding his father’s hospitalization in a public hospital.

With his post on X, the health minister said that “the NHS and its officers save thousands of people every day and they do it with knowledge, conscience, empathy, sensitivity and professionalism”.

The minister’s full post:

I let a few hours pass by the touching and human post of the colleague and
@kallianos
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before I get placed. But I’m not used to hiding and I wouldn’t do it now either.

I absolutely respect the pain of every relative for his man and every son for his father.
After all, I have lost mine too and I understand the pain.

However, I have to clarify for the public to be properly informed, a few things:

A) The process of entering an ICU patient is transparent, according to strict medical criteria.
Therefore, the Ministry and I personally do not interfere -officially- in this purely medical procedure.

B) None of us are exempt from this process, as access to an ICU bed can in some cases decide someone’s life or death.

Against this we are all absolutely equal.
Decisions are made by doctors based on scientific criteria.

C) I have absolute confidence in our medical staff and in this case the legal procedure and legal criteria have been fully followed.

For reasons of medical confidentiality I would not be allowed to know the exact state of health of the patient, but I assure you that no one at the hospital was indifferent.

The ESY and its officers save thousands of people every day and do so with knowledge, conscience, empathy, sensitivity and professionalism.

I wish the father of my friend Yannis a happy birthday and I assure him that the National Health Service is doing everything humanly possible to make sure everything goes well for his father, but also for every fellow citizen who needs care.