Parliament creates National Ambulance Authority to free up emergency fleet

Cyprus’s parliament has passed legislation establishing a National Ambulance Authority, with state ambulances to be reserved exclusively for life-threatening emergencies while private providers take over non-emergency transfers within the General Healthcare System (GHS) framework. The current Ambulance Service handles over 95,000 transfers a year, more than 45,000 of which are non-emergency — covering bedridden patients […]

By Marilena Panayi