Private hospitals threaten action over nursing shortages

Private hospitals warned on Friday they will “take action” unless the government acts immediately to address a critical shortage of nurses.

Speaking on CyBC radio, private hospitals association (Pasin) chairman, Marios Karaiskakis, he cautioned that hospitals were being pushed to the brink.

“We’ve run out of words, we needed nurses yesterday and they’re telling us about a new study.”

Karaiskakis said that private hospitals have been pressing for action since before Christmas...