Health crisis as inaction leads to hospital closures

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEB) has expressed serious concern over the Ministry of Health’s recent threats to suspend operations of private hospitals due to insufficient nursing staff.

OEB highlights that the nurse shortage has been recognized for years, but no substantial measures have been taken to address it. Instead, the Ministry’s approach risks closing private hospitals, with significant consequences for patients, staff, and the health system.

OEB, in consultation with its member hospitals and the Pancyprian Association of Private Hospitals, has called for practical solutions to alleviate the staffing problem but reports that no measures have been adopted.

OEB urges the Ministry of Health to either facilitate the staffing of nurses in hospitals or face the closure of these facilities. The organization states that the responsibility for either outcome lies solely with the State.