Our View: Okypy’s deficit cannot be fixed while unions rule

Presenting his ministry’s budget for 2025 at the House finance committee on Monday, Health Minister Michael Damianos said that an action plan would be prepared in the immediate future for the state health services organisation Okypy, to increase its revenue and reduce its expenditure. He did not elaborate how this would be done, other than to say that one way was through energy upgrades.

While the objective of the government was to support public hospitals, “this does not mean the covering...