President praises upgrades to hospital A Es while nurses decry ongoing staffing shortages

President Nikos Christodoulides pledged greater support for the country’s hospitals while, elsewhere, the nurse’s union marked Monday as national Nurse’s Day and said the ongoing staffing shortage was the “gangrene” of the health care system.

Speaking to the press outside the Nicosia General Hospital on Sunday following a visit to the new rapid response clinic within the facility’s emergency department, Christodoulides said he was satisfied with what he had seen