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Postby TeresaE » 20 May 2010 20:57

Updated @ October 2015..

After experiencing my first few visits to the hospital recently I felt obliged to share my new found knowledge with others to help them avoid the many mistakes and pitfalls that I encountered.

After recovering from the event (and I have worked in hospitals for all of my working life so I am well used to the crowds and confusion) I decided to compile a lighthearted guide for others. I hope it helps.
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The Beginners Guide to Paphos General Hospital

Most importantly

You do not have to qualify for NHS care in Cyprus (ie be in receipt of a UK state pension or have paid your Social Insurance if your work in Cyprus) to attend the General Hospital. You can visit, present your medical card or pay for your care. It is a lot less expensive than a private hospital. The process, except for paying, is the same for everyone, prescription books are obtained from the reception desk..


Preparation

This is important to avoid high anxiety, depression, a sense of hopelessness and dehydration.

Do
Remember your pink card or European ID card or your Cyprus medical card, money and plastic payment method.
Take with you a book, I pod, bottle of water or some other distraction that appeals to you.
Have an early night before your trip. The experience will be challenging. You need to be at the hospital by 7.00am if possible and the traffic and road works are your first obstacles to overcome.
Leave plenty of time to find a parking space. After you turn into the hospital grounds you can turn right or continue straight ahead.

If you intend to see a consultant, find out their name beforehand. Ask around for a recommendation or phone the hospital and ask for the relevant department, then ask the doctors name. If necessary ask which day that doctor attends Paphos hospita some only come a couple or a few days a week from Limassol hospital, and try to make an appointment by telephone. You obviously need to visit on the day of the consultants attendance and if you have not managed to make an appointment you can try on the day.

Do not expect any instructions, posters, leaflets or information in English within the hospital environment. The fact that we are in Europe now has not been acknowledged yet.
Do not hesitate in the car park. There are no signs to inform you of any one way systems in the car parks just go for it. If you see a space and other cars are searching too, do not linger - you will lose it.
Do not always expect to be able to make an appointment with a consultant prior to your visit. Some consultants will not allow this and insist that they see you first to identify your need and they then give you an appointment. This may require an additional attendance on a future date. now specialist fee is €6.

Inside the hospital


As you approach you will see a cafe that extends to the paved area outside the hospital. With that on your left enter the first door you see on the left. A queue at windowed desks will be visible.
This is where your true British grit is required and your vast life experience will come into its own – your ability to smile and apologise when someone else is abusing you; your inherent ability to queue and be polite and patient.

Do Join the queue to register at this window, and at each subsequent visit to the hospital.
Expect Cypriots to appear and walk straight up to the window and be served, whether you are talking to the receptionist or not. You must stay calm.
Expect to be a contortionist. The speaking aperture in the reception window is at desk height, thereby causing everyone to bend sideways and speak through the hole in order to hear the receptionist and to be heard and understood. I have never found talking to a receptionist male of female to cause any sideways bending (admin).. This causes great entertainment while you are in the queue observing others doing it and embarrassment when it is your turn.
Inform the receptionist that this is your first visit to the hospital and that you want to register to see a doctor. You can see a GP or a consultant in any specialist problem. You will need to be specific at this point so they can tell you where to go afterwards. It will be most helpful if you can name your consultant at this point.
The receptionist will need your pink card or ID card to enter your details onto their computer database and give you the first of your many sheets of labels. This is where you will pay for your visit if you do not qualify for NHS care.

[b]Payment € 3 each visit for all,for UK retirees there is no charge for medical treatment apart from those fees mentioned, Blood tests and medication are extra for those who have to pay. Charges for prescriptions are (2015) 50cents per item. you will need to obtain medical stamps to cover this as cash is not taken, stamps can be obtained at the PO or of course the general hospital..


You will be given a small green paper receipt for your €10 of them for the payment to see a consultant. You will not be told what to do with these and I cannot help you either. Suggestions by email please.

Hopefully the receptionist will tell you where to go for your doctors appointment but you are usually given a vague wave of the arm in the general direction. Before you embark on your exploration of the hospital though -

At the right hand side of the reception desk is another window. If this is your first visit you will need a file for your notes. After you have registered you need to queue at that window and ask for a file. They will look at your labels and give you an empty file which you take with you to hold your medical notes. (most of us now keep our medical files safely with us at all times).

If you don't do this you will queue for the doctor who will then send you back to this window to obtain a file, then you will queue to see the doctor again, such fun and games. (keep your file with you)

On subsequent visits you will need to queue at the file window to collect your file before going to see the doctor. This has changed, the GP will receive your file while you are there, but my advice is keep your file, most GP let you do this now.

The waiting rooms to see the consultants are in the corridor alongside this window, the GPs are along the corridor to the opposite side of the reception desk. Please walk on with your head held high and optimism in your heart.


Seeing the doctor

You need to find the correct location for the doctor as the names on all the consulting rooms are in Greek please ask another ex pat. They are the most helpful people and have been through the same experience as you, or worse at least you are reading this to guide you. They are very sympathetic generally and a much needed ally.

Usually you keep your white strip one part going to the GP the other for prescriptions if needed, the GP will attach these to your prescription book, do not lose this!

All white tickets strips are numbered, this will be your position for the GP (when it's your turn) do ask those waiting what number they are is my best advise, do not be a push over while waiting, your number is when you follow the next person in...

Before you settle down with your book/ipod/magazine though you need to hand your file into the doctor. To do this you have to watch for the present patient to come out of the consulting room, walk in and place your file on the doctor's desk and withdraw back to your seat. By doing this your file will be placed in order of attendance and you will be called in for a consultation at the appropriate time. If you don't do this you will sit patiently waiting until all the other patients have gone, then the doctor will look at you in surprise as he leaves for his lunch and tell you to come back the next day.

The doctors are usually very good at their job, knowledgeable and kind to their patients that is the best bit. After your consultation the doctor may well then complete a request form for blood tests. This is your next challenge.

Blood tests


Please take note : As an outpatient you will need to go to another window to the left of the blood bank/phlebotomists area where the receptionist will take your form and provide you with the necessary blood bottles. In the early morning this also has a ticket from the machine system so take one immediately and queue with the heaving throng. This ticket is not for the blood bottle office - oh no! that is just to confuse you. It is for the phlebotomist queue where you wait after securing your bottles.

You must complete this procedure between the hours of 7am 9am when this office closes to outpatients. If you are later than this you have to come back the next day to do it.

If you have to pay for the blood tests you need to go first to the Administration Office on the second floor with your blood request paper, pay for the blood tests and take your receipt back to the lady with the blood bottles before she will give you any bottles. Be prepared for the shock of the cost of this if you have to pay and that is the reason to take your plastic. There are no doctors on this floor to resuscitate you if you succumb to the shock. Allow time for this bureaucratic process.

If you do not obey this particular rule you may well be shouted at in Cypriot with wild gesticulations towards the clock on the wall to remind you that you are late. Do not take this personally it is a common occurrence and one that requires the true grit of the British patient. Other ex pats will gather round to support you knowing that the same thing happened to them. The sense of camaraderie goes some way to alleviate the despair and embarrassment of this exercise. (my advise is go early)

Once you have your blood bottles you will feel an overwhelming sense of achievement and, clutching your blood request form and your bottles, you need to make your way around the corner to the phlebotomists.

If the ticket system is being used a phlebotomist will come to door of the room periodically and call out ticket numbers IN GREEK. Perhaps this is your opportunity to learn your numbers from 1 to 100. Alternatively, you can walk to the person and show them your ticket and they may help. If the ticket system is not being used do not sit on the chairs provided outside the phlebotomists office. This is a free for all area. Be strong. Cypriot patients will simply walk in ahead of you and be seen. Instead, walk into the doorway, smile and look hopeful. Make eye contact with one of the phlebotomists and use your very best non verbal communications to will them to take your blood samples.

They are actually very pleasant people and very efficient at their job.

You will see them and when they see your blood request they may ask you if you have eaten that morning. If you say yes they could ask you to return tomorrow as your blood test needs to be done when you have fasted. They are not being difficult, it is necessary but it may come as a shock as no one else has told you this.

At this point you have to accept defeat if only for your health and sense of well being. At least tomorrow morning you won't have to queue at reception again as you will take your blood request form and bottles home with you. Tomorrow don't forget the ticket machine though on your arrival.

If they do take your blood sample they will place a piece of cotton wool on the needlestick point and ask you to bend your arm and hold it with your other hand - this is the blood test walk. You will leave the hospital like that as no plasters are offered. That's just the way it is so accept it - the plasters don't stick anyway as I have found out after blood donation (where they do treat you to a plaster, but no chocolate biscuits). You will be just one of many people walking along the corridor in this manner - a sort of blood club if you like.

Leave the hospital, return to your car and, if you are not blocked in, go and treat yourself to whatever you feel you need to have to take away the mixed emotions of the mornings experience. Then remember to laugh it reduces stress levels and makes you a better person.

You have done a great job and have learned a valuable lesson in life and most of all, you have survived. Well done.


Updated on the 29th October 2015 by admin, we thank the now long gone Teresa for this posting, if any member feels something should be added to this updated post please do let us know..

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Postby robcar » 21 May 2010 08:52

Fabulous post TheresaE, it is now on it's way to many of my friends in UK.

I may need to use the General myself one day and will be putting a copy of this in my car.

Many Thanks.........Love it
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Postby trevnhil » 21 May 2010 09:50

Hi Teresa. Can you add when and where you would obtain a prescription pad from.

I wonder what your advice would be with regards as to what to do with your notes folder upon exiting the hospital. We (along with many others) take our notes folders home with us.

And just to add to your brilliant resume of a visit to the hospital..... If the doctor gives you a prescription, then there is all the queuing again in the Hospital's Pharmacy. :D

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Postby Dee Dee » 21 May 2010 12:26

Very useful Teresa, I will print this and keep it in our Cyprus house - just in case!!
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Postby marys9876 » 23 Feb 2011 14:49

I have just found the message about the General Hospital. I laughed so much, I don't know why because we have endured your experience so often. In fact you have to have been there to believe it.

Are there to be follow up chapters on visiting A & E (not in an ambulance) and the hospital pharmacy?
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Postby Huddy » 30 Jun 2011 12:53

I gave blood this morning and the usual time wasting occurred. However, one now has to have the blood request forms, given & labelled by the consultant/doctor, stamped & photocopied at the 1st office inside Accident & Emergency. This includes a copy of your pink/white medical card, which they keep. Why they keep it I know not, as that is also photocopied! I suppose if two of you are there, one could go straight to the area where the bottles are issued and take a ticket whilst the other one gets the forms stamped.
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Postby trevnhil » 30 Jun 2011 13:18

Hi John. I agree the paperwork is amazing. I was there yesterday for blood test and I went for a 'deli' ticket first and then to A&E for the duplicating. I then went back for the Phials and then waited outside the blood letting room. All in all about an hour.
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Postby Bristolian » 02 Jul 2011 13:28

As a Newbie, well said Teresea. On the GP side Dr E Anastaisa is my GP and she is also the Director of Administration . One thing she has done is that on entering the Registration area on the left she has put up a large notice telling u when u can see a specialist without an appointment other than having to register.

Could I just mention that the reason why us E121s have to get paperwork stamped is because Pafos General is "starved of cash" (and Polis) and that they do not have a full computor system as does Limassol, Larnaca and Nicosia. So please be courteous and don't knock them. I speak highly of them as with the Chair of the Pafos Diabetes Support Group we have had meetings with them.
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Postby trevnhil » 02 Jul 2011 13:54

Bristolian wrote:Sorry should have mentioned files - for years I had mine, but all Drs have been given instructions to keep files for the Hospital to refer to in an emergency - it is now kept by the Dr each time I visit.


Well fortunately mine never has been, and still isn't.

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Postby Huddy » 02 Jul 2011 14:26

Mine is 'cos they actually phoned me to ask where mine was. Mind you it was after I had sent them a copy of an email I sent to the Health Minister, not that he replied of course, the minister that is, even though his English is very good. Well he took his degrees in Hull!
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Postby trevnhil » 02 Jul 2011 14:35

I do appreciate that the ruling is that files stay at the hospital. There are notices to this effect on windows and walls there.

As I said I bring my back home every time. Both consultants that I see there have said YES when I have asked should I retain the files.

Have you seen the filing system there. Do you think it would help it they had many hundreds more files to slot in, or put on the chairs or even the floor.

My wife uses Polis hospital and always left her file there. On one visit they could not find her file...... and never have. All the paperwork and medical history has vanished into the blue yonder.

She retains hers at home now as does my F I L.

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Postby Bristolian » 06 Aug 2011 14:59

Medical files - I have just rev'd a letter from the Director of Medical and Public Health and he says as follows :-"The medical records are CONFIDENTIAL and their removal out of the hospital is prohibted .............Patients can however have a copy of the file by paying 17.09 euros at the a/c dept"

I think he has "fallen on his sword" as they will be no longer be Confidential as u will be able see what Drs say about u.

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Postby trevnhil » 06 Aug 2011 15:09

I don't think the medical files were ever meant to be confidential from 'You' the patient.

Those people who have files stored at the hospital have to go at a particular window to collect them for the visit to the doctor. So they give them to you then, and you can read away to your hearts content whilst you are in the waiting room.
Better with a good mystery book though.

My files are still here with me at home.

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Edit... When you have you 'copy of the files', how do you keep it up to date. Will the doctor or consultant toddle off to find a photocopier so you can take an up to date file copy home with you. :lol:
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Postby Bristolian » 06 Aug 2011 15:25

I have lost my post so I will resubmit. Having re-read the thread - Stamping of Blood Test sheets - This is now done at the Blood Regisgration Desk - copy of white/pink Med Card still required.

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Postby Bristolian » 06 Aug 2011 15:33

Trevnhil - Some Drs write adverse comments about the patient. Sorry I posted the info.

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Postby trevnhil » 06 Aug 2011 16:13

John, don't be sorry that you posted the info. What you say is the correct actual position that the hospitals are or should be taking.

My wife went to Polis Hospital with her file last week and asked them to change our home address on the computer and on labels (one to go on file)

They told her exactly what you have said that she should not have her file. Eventually they persuaded her to hand the file in and gave her a copy of everything in a new folder. No fee was mentioned at all.

The reason both myself and my wife are fiercely in favour of retaining our own files is because Polis Hospital lost my wifes file. How good is that when you go to see the doctor or consultant with no previous history at all.

Thank you for the information about the blood registration.
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Postby debs21 » 21 Apr 2013 12:11

Hi, I found teresa's post amusing , true and useful. I attended the antenatal clinic with a newly pregnant lady and discovered similar experience/chaos. Lack of privacy/confidentiality and information!
This is just the way things are but goes 'against the grain' for many English.
I cannot fault the treatment a relative recieved as an emergency at A &E last year, however the inpatient care afterward left a lot to be desired.
I would always say keep your own file and keep it with you. I U.K we give pregnant women their own handheld notes to keep with them (even in the car etc) in case they are elsewhere and need medical care the notes are a record that they are pregnant and include a list of any allergies and progress to date. Its information about you...why shouldn't you have them, saves them losing them! Debbie. Midwife.
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Postby bev and ray peyia » 11 Aug 2013 17:35

My consultant said to take my file home because " they are always losing them " her words bless her.After a 5 hour wait last month (and I had an appointment) to see her she explained why we wait so long. The people from the villages catch the bus into the hospital and have to be seen first so that they can get the bus back,so it isn't personal it makes sense. She told me to register at 12 o/clock and I would see her within 30 minutes next time.
Wonderful post though and things haven't really changed in all that time except now we all have to pay.More confusion.
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Postby ballards » 02 Sep 2014 12:39

very informative. however what are the current prices that will horrify me
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Postby trevnhil » 02 Sep 2014 18:43

I very much doubt that you will be horrified at all
€3 to see a general Practitioner.
€6 to see a consultant
50cents per item on your blood test form
50 cents per item on your prescription.
€10 for a visit to A&E

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Postby rhino » 24 Oct 2014 10:32

What times are the GP's available to visit, i.e. is it only mornings?
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Postby trevnhil » 24 Oct 2014 10:57

Roughly around 7am to 1 pm ish

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Postby rhino » 24 Oct 2014 11:19

Thank you
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Postby b7hgf » 12 Nov 2014 20:41

Just been looking through this thread right from the start in 2010 I think it was.Both me and my wife(both pensioners) have to go to paphos hospital tomorrow to try and get our medication for the first time since we arrived in September.Chemist back in the uk gave us two months supply before we left so now is the time to find out if the system is as bad as it seems on this thread.
Can some kind expat give us some up to date info on a visit to see a doctor at paphos hospital.Also as we were both on repeat prespcriptions in the uk and we usually got our medication every month is this the case here or do they give you your prescriptions for longer than one month.ie.two or three months at a time.
Would appreciate some good advice.bri
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Postby trevnhil » 12 Nov 2014 21:33

This is not easy to answer...

You each need to go to the reception window (behind the cafe) with your Cyprus medical card or EHIC card and ask to see a GP.
You each need to ask for a prescription book, and you both need a hospital file.
You each have to pay €3 to see the GP who is behind one of the doors down the corridor to the left of reception, ask which door.

The GP will write your prescription and you then need to get a 50cent stamp for each item you have been prescribed. You get these from a window to the right of reception.

Come out of the building and go into the pharmacy with your prescription and get the tablets from the pharmacy window.

Keep your files and and prescription books, and take them home... The prescription will normally be for 2 months

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Postby b7hgf » 12 Nov 2014 21:41

Thank you Trev.It sounds straight forward but like most things in Cyprus as we have found out in the short time we have been here I,m sure its not, but we are getting well used to the Cyprus way of life now.
Thanks again and will give an update on how it went when we get back tomorrow.Bri
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Postby trevnhil » 12 Nov 2014 21:45

The main thing is that it is just very different from the UK way of seeing GP's in individual buildings around town. There is no appointment system for GP's only for Consultants.

It would be interesting to know how you go on.

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Postby number6 » 12 Nov 2014 21:53

Bri if you are intending to live in Cyprus permanently you will need to get an S1 form from the UK.

"Healthcare
If you are not paying into the Cypriot social security system you may be able to get state healthcare if:

you are in receipt of a UK State Pension, long term contribution based Incapacity benefit or Bereavement Benefit. In order to apply for state healthcare you must apply for a S1 Form from the Int. Pension Centre on 0044 191 218 7777 "
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Postby b7hgf » 12 Nov 2014 22:11

Yes will let you know the outcome when we get back trev.
Number 6.we did the S1 thing straight after we arrived and took it to the citizens place down butcher boy road and have the medical card now.Thanks for your input though.Bri.
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Postby b7hgf » 13 Nov 2014 14:09

Well that was quite an experience on our first visit to see a doctor at pahos hospital.After reading this thread right through and trying to follow trev,s insight which he gave me last night we went with a little bit of apprehension.
This is my overall opinion and thoughts on the whole experience.
We arrived at hospital at aprox 8.30am.The car park was a mess and my first thought was.God this is the day when our nice shinny white insignia gets bumped.We found a parking space quite quickly and proceded to the entrance behind the café asking one brit where the reception was.Okay in we go and joins the line which was not to big.Spoke to another lady who told us exactly what trev told us last night.Only had to wait about 7 minutes and it was our turn.Itook about ten minutes for the lady behind the screen to get our file set up and she then told us which doctor we had to see and where to go.We then proceeded to where we were told to go and asked another brit if we were in the correct place.Yes he said you are ok.Had a chat to him and found out who was in front of us.Ithink we waited about 50 minutes before we were seen.Both of us went in together.His English was quite good and he understood the medication I was on for my arthritis.He wrote out my prescription needs in the book but there was one item the pharmacy did not have after he made a phone call so he made out a prescription so I can get it from an ordinary pharmacy for six months.I then told him I was due to see a rhuematologist so he made out a form to go to the appointments window and he told me if I cant get an appointment in hospital I will get one privately.Doctor also told us to make sure we KEEP OUR FILE AND BRING IT EACH TIME WE COME.
Next it was my wife.He had more time to spend on here because of the medicines she was on and he had to ask her a lot of questions about why she was on them.Her BP was high so she has to go back and see him next week.She also had to have one of her prescriptions prescribed via an outside pharmacy as the hospital didn't have them.Our medicine was prescribed for two month which was pleasing.Next we proceeded to the window to pay for the prescriptions.Nice young chap behind the glass who was very chatty and pointed me in the direction of the appointments place.Gave my slip in and she eventually printed out an appointment to see a rheumatologist in the hospital in march 2015 which will work out ok with my rituximab infusions iam on.Then proceeded to the pharmacy and go seen straight away.
We exited the hospital at 10.38am so on the whole timewise I thought it was ok.My wife has a different opinion but I went in not knowing what to expect and came out relieved it was not as bad as I had read on here.
It was annoying seeing the locals trying to jump in front of you and the lady on the appointments desk was very dry but this is Cyprus and if you want to live here you get on with it.Perhaps the ministry of health could be a bit more aware that there are a lot of expats use the hospitals and put up some signs in English.Perhaps in time the EU will make them do it.
Hope our experience helps others in similar circumstances.Oh yes to my surprise our nice white insignia was unmarked.Phewwwwwwwwwww.
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Postby trevnhil » 13 Nov 2014 14:51

Well done Bri. It IS different from the UK. But the first time does make you apprehensive and this could be a contributory factor to your wife having high BP

If you parked in one of the two front car parks across the little road from the cafe then you were lucky.
In fact your mention of the registration queue leads me to think it was not a busy day.
There is another very large car park around the back of the hospital.

Ask for the procedure if you ever get a form to go and have blood tests. That is a different kettle of fish.

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Postby b7hgf » 13 Nov 2014 16:27

Yes maybe it was quite quiet but I didn't want to go any earlier than we did as I presumed it would be really busy.For the doctor we saw we were number 14 & 15.I should,ve had blood tests for my arthritis but I chose not to mention it today as I didn't want to get too confused.But I guess I will have to go in the next few weeks then I,ll ask you the questions then, which brings me onto the cost of the prescriptions we have to get at a local pharmacy cause the hospital did not have them.How much will I have to pay per prescription ?
It doesn't take much to send my wifes BP sky high.We have our own BP machine and its been fine since we got here but you could be right.The first visit to that place probably sent it sky high.Bri.
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Re: The Beginners Guide to Paphos General Hospital - revised

Postby Memory man » 13 Nov 2014 16:30

Hi Bri,

The prescriptions should only cost what is shown here:-

A List of Medication Prices in Cyprus

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Re: The Beginners Guide to Paphos General Hospital - revised

Postby trevnhil » 13 Nov 2014 16:55

Bri, I think you did very well for a first visit. You are right to digest one thing at a time.

Re Blood tests, you say you will have to go in the next few weeks. If you are having the tests at the General Hospital, you can only go after obtaining a form written by the GP or Consultant.

As you say, ask nearer the time.

You can go to private Labs in the town but then of course someone has to read then and give medication accordingly

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Postby b7hgf » 13 Nov 2014 17:21

Thanks memory man for the list.
Trev,yes I suppose we did do well for the first time.Reference my blood tests.I used to get them done every month when I could remember to go.Of course it was a totally different system in the uk to here.In the uk I had a prefilled in form from the doctor which I handed in to the blood reception at the local hospital and I gave the nurse the form and they checked on the computer then took the bloods then you could ring up in 48 hours to get results if you wanted.i only ever rang to find out the results when I new it was near time for me to have my rituximab infusion as the blood test would show in my rheumatoid factor had gone up.
I have plenty of time on my hands now we are out here so I,ll go and see the doctor in a few weeks to see about getting them done.Bri
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Postby trevnhil » 13 Nov 2014 17:54

Before you go for the tests ask on here for the information. It is not usually the same visit when you see the GP. ie usually 2 visits. :roll:

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Postby b7hgf » 13 Nov 2014 18:01

Ok trev I,ll bear that in mind.I have one more question.Since we got our medical card we have moved from Pissouri to Anarita.It is the Pissouri address on the card.Do we have to go down to the citizens office in butcher boy road to change the address or just tell the receptionist at the hospital.Bri.
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Re: The Beginners Guide to Paphos General Hospital - revised

Postby trevnhil » 13 Nov 2014 18:43

I think you need to call in at the Citizens office. But as far as I know they only need your up to date address to send a new card to when your old one expires. So there should be no rush, just when you are next down that way


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Postby b7hgf » 13 Nov 2014 19:06

Okay thanks trev.Really appreciated your help in last 24 hours.Thanks again.Bri
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Re: The Beginners Guide to Paphos General Hospital - revised

Postby b7hgf » 17 Nov 2014 15:07

Further to all the questions I,ve asked about our first visit to paphos hospital.My wife had most of her prescriptions dispensed by the hospital pharmacy but there was one they did not have or could not get hold of so she was given a prescription to get it from an outside pharmacy.My question is can we use that prescription to get them via the internet/uk pharmacy.I seem to remember someone recently saying they got their medicine via a uk online pharmacy and they did name it but for the life of me I cant find the thread with it on.Any help would be appreciated.Bri.
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Postby trevnhil » 17 Nov 2014 15:12

From what I have read in the past, I would have thought you should be able to. The best was is to contact the online pharmacy. If it is possible I would only send a photocopy or they may accept a scanned image.

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Postby b7hgf » 17 Nov 2014 15:56

Thanks trev.i,ll wait and see if any other member comes up with a named online pharmacy that will accept a copy of a Cypriot prescription and will send to Cyprus.i,ll give it 24 hours before I start firing off emails.Bri.
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Postby Wilky » 18 Nov 2014 13:49

HI Bri have you tried a pharmacy to see if they have the medicine sometimes the hospital don't have all the drugs but the local pharmacies are very good.
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Postby b7hgf » 18 Nov 2014 15:12

Hi Wilky.Yes the local pharmacy in pissouri have the 10mg tablets of the ones she has been prescribed but she has been taking 120mg tablets.The chemist rang around to try and get these 120mg ones but apparently you cant get them in Cyprus.For one months supply of these 10mg tablets buying them from an outside pharmacy is going to cost just over 60 euros.There is an online chemist in the uk called chemist direct and the 120mg tablets are 57p each making it just over £15 for them for a month.I contacted them and they will only accept a prescription with my wifes name and address,the doctors name and email address,doctors surgery address ect and I don't think they will accept the sort of prescriptions that the hospital put out.Plus they want it sent through the post to them.Like I said I was asking about the online chemist as I read on here that someone had got their medicines from a uk chemist via the internet with the hospital prescription by emailing a copy.The person actually gave the website name as well but I cant find the thread,This is a controlled drug in the uk hence they wont give it willy nilly.Bri

wilky,yes I can get them in 60mg form from a local pharmacy but the dosage is 120mg.i know you can double the 60 to make 120 but the cost for a months supply in Cyprus is 60 euros fron a local pharmacy and in the uk its £15.Big difference don't you think.Hence the search for an online chemist in the uk that will accept the antiquated Cyprus prescription.Bri
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