The ‘oncology corridor’

Last Friday I had my first experience of ‘oncology corridor’ at Paphos General hospital.

For those of you who’ve never visited, let me explain. The oncology clinic, which is held every Friday is at the end of a narrow corridor. This corridor is the waiting area, and is furnished with one wooden bench. It also offers access to one other doctors room, whose patients have to squeeze past , or climb over the waiting oncology patients.

Also that day was one of the hottest so far, but there were no water dispensers for patient use, and had it not been for a volunteer from PASYKAF dispensing cold drinks we would have been parched

Is this really any way to treat seriously ill people? If the answer is lack of space, how about using one of the rather palatial administration offices on the floor above?

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