The Accident & Emergency Departments (A&E) of the 
Staffed by highly-trained, experienced doctors
The A&E staff includes General Medicine Practitioners, Internal Medicine Practitioners, General and Orthopaedic Surgeons, highly trained in providing care for serious, major trauma and potentially life-threatening conditions in adults and children. Okypy’s A&E Departments are supported on a 24-hour basis by specialist and resident doctors from all medical specialties, who are readily available to respond wherever and whenever their assistance to the A&E is required.
Emergency care
A&E Departments provide Emergency Medical and Nursing Care to those who are in need of urgent medical care 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. A&E house Acute Inpatient Units, for short-term patient hospitalisations, treatment, or further investigation until the decision to admit or discharge the patient is reached. A&E Departments can, simultaneously, treat a large number of injured patients in emergency situations (extreme weather conditions, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, pandemics), in direct cooperation with the Ambulance Control Centre.
State-of-the-art equipment
The A&E Departments of Gesy hospitals are highly organised, have the appropriate infrastructure and the necessary state-of-the-art equipment for the optimal treatment of severely ill patients, while their staff have the expertise to handle confidently and efficiently each incident. Each A&E Department is equipped with cardiographs, monitors, defibrillators, external pacemakers, ventilators, mechanical chest compression equipment (LUCAS), equipment for rapid laboratory results of critical tests such as blood gases, troponin, D-Dimer and electrolytes, equipment for emergency abdominal ultrasound in patients with multiple injuries (FAST), and portable equipment for regular X-rays.
Cooperation with other departments
All Imaging Departments (Regular X-rays, Ultrasound Department, CT and MRI), as well as the Clinical Laboratory (Haematology, Biochemistry) of the hospitals, cover the needs of A&E Departments on a 24-hour basis, providing all laboratory and imaging tests deemed necessary for each patient. Blood Banks of hospitals are available to the A&E Departments on a 24-hour basis, providing immediate service whenever an emergency need arises.
A&E Departments are located in the seven hospitals of Okypy in all Cyprus districts and available on a non-discriminatory basis to all citizens, throughout the Republic of Cyprus, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Additional information can be found at the Okypy webpage https://shso.org.cy/en/ dedicated to A&E Departments.
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