Nurses to hold work stoppage on Thursday

Nurses will hold a work stoppage outside public hospitals on Thursday to protest understaffing, union representatives announced on Tuesday.

The stoppage will be from noon to 1pm and will include nurses who are members of Pasydy and Pancypriot nurses’ union Pasyno.

Speaking to Trito radio, Pasyno spokesman Theodoros Petelis, called Okypy’s claim that there is no issue of understaffing in public hospitals, alarming.

He recalled that a year ago, the same organisation had agreed that hospitals were 140 nurses short.