HEALTH CENTRE
Pissouri Community Medical Centre
• The Centre is next door to and just down the hill from St Andrew’s Church
• Dr Constantinos is the doctor in charge. He is based in Avdimou which is the Area Health Centre.
• Ph. 99 146766 or Avdimou Medical Centre, 25827023 for additional information from 8:00am to 01:30pm
• Emergency & First aid room of Limassol General Hospital tel: 25801100-ext 2
• The Pissouri Centre is open on Thursdays from 9 am. The Doctor stays until all the patients are seen.
• The Pharmacist is also usually present.
• To register with the doctor, take your pink medical card to Limassol Old General Hospital. They will also issue prescription books.
For emergencies only, Dr Constantinos' other surgeries are:
a) Monday & Friday From 8:00-13:00 Avdimou Medical Centre
b) Tuesday From 9:00-13:00 Paramali & Prastio Medical Centres
c) Wednesday From9:00-13:00 Anogyra- St. Thomas – Plataniskia – Alectora Medical centres.
Please note except for emergencies Pissouri residents must use the Pissouri Health Centre.
The Village Office have pointed out that we should use the facility regularly to prove that there is a demand in order to reinforce our calls for extended health facilities. So please do take advantage of this service.
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Warning!! At present you must knock on the door of the Dr Constantinou’s consulting room and register with the receptionist who is inside with him to get in the queue!
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Updated information on access to medical services from Dr Constantinos, 28th August 2010
THESE ARE NOT MY PERSONAL RULES!
These guidelines are from Ministry of Health, the District Chief Doctor Mr. Andronicou and the Pharmaceutical services of Cyprus.
1. All citizens of Pissouri must come to Pissouri Medical Centre for their annual medication supplies.
2. In case of emergency or new illness, they can come in any medical centre I am attending through the week:
a) Monday & Friday From 8:00-13:00 Avdimou Medical Centre
b) Tuesday From 9:00-13:00 Paramali & Prastio Medical Centres
c) Wednesday From9:00-13:00 Anogyra- St. Thomas – Plataniskia – Alectora Medical centres.
3. The best way to contact with me in case of emergency or new illness is my tel: 99146766 where I can explain where to find me.
4. In extreme emergencies at any time or day of the week such as heart attacks, trauma or open wounds , accidents , burning wounds, or extremely urgent situations call first Emergency room in Limassol General Hospital tel:25801100_2 and AFTER call me at tel: 99146766. I can always help though I don’t have all that is needed for emergency situations.
5. Please, after working hours 13:00 am, call me for emergency ONLY (Many people call me at night to ask information about working hours of the Medical centre).
6. For emergency or illness that can’t wait till next morning feel free to call me any hour of the day including after midnight, any day of the week including Saturdays and Sundays.
7. The only reasons that I cannot answer to your Phone call is that 1) I am on holidays, 2) I don’t work that day (2 weekends {Saturday & Sunday } a month I was ordered by the Ministry of Health not to work even on call), 3) My mobile is out of reach .
8. Working & registration hours of Pissouri Medical Centre are from 9:00 am till the last patient. So please come on time. All registered patients will be given queue number so, come on time.
9. All patients have the right to an annual (yearly) blood analysis that he or she can ask the doctor to prescribe. Throughout the year, for any other reason, it’s on doctor’s opinion to give blood analysis or any other examinations and it is not patient’s privilege.
10. Under Ministry of Health Guidelines it is forbidden to Government Doctors to give medication or examination tests or blood analysis to patients under order of PrivateDoctors. So if your Private Doctor prescribed you medication or tests or any kind of examination, please get this medication or tests on private sector.This is because the government health system provides a full medical cover of services and it won’t take the responsibility for private doctors’ diagnosis and treatment.
11. Under guidelines of the district doctor, any driving licence renewal forms ,Health certificates of any kind, or illness certificates for social services must be issued from a commission of doctors in the old Limassol hospital. So it’s not up to me to issue such papers.
The reasons that a patient has to come to the medical centre of their district are:
- To keep a full medical record of a patient in one place.
- To keep the medication supplies of that patient in one place, and to update them every month. It’s extremely difficult for the Pharmacist to know what kind and how many medications he has to order when the patient is not coming to get them from their district medical centre.
- The fact that if we increase the number of visits to a medical centre (approximately up to 40 every time), this will be consider by the Ministry of health as a reason of providing more medical services to the community such us 24-hourly doctor and nursing services, ambulance services etc.
Personal opinion: If you are using medication from the private sector don’t seek the generics (similar medications) from the government medical health. They might be similar though they’re not the same.
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From Contact 62:
DOCTOR’S SURGERY HOURS
Some of us, relying on the hours posted as the surgery time for the doctor on Thursdays in Pissouri, have turned up at the Surgery late in the morning only to find it very much unmanned. The advice is that you must arrive between 9 am and 10 am, because if there is no-one in the queue Dr Constantinos is likely to take the opportunity to deal with other patients outside the surgery or urgent cases in other parts of the extensive area he covers. He is phenomenally busy, and we must remember that it is a very beneficial change in our circumstances to have the extensive cover he provides. To come earlier and sit with a good book or gossip with others waiting to see him can be a diverting experience!