Our View: Union pressure leaves hospitals short of nurses

The president of the Cyprus association of private hospitals (Pasin), Marios Karaiskakis, could not hide his anger and frustration with the authorities, speaking about the nursing shortage on state radio on Friday morning.

“We have run out of words,” he said. “We need nurses yesterday and they are talking about a new study,” he complained. While private hospitals did not want to inconvenience patients, they had been left with no choice but to take measures, Karaiskakis warned. Would they stop taking patients...