The need for urgent recruitment of permanent doctors in their department of cytology Good hospital, emphasizes the Association of Physicians of the Athens Hospitals of Piraeus (EINAP). According to EINAP, the department’s only full-time physician retires at the end of June, while the department retains two assistant curators with contracts expiring within a year, one medical specialist, and three biotechnologists.

This development of events threatens the further work of the department and, accordingly, the health of patients in the tertiary level hospital. “Every day, the laboratory receives and diagnoses a huge range of samples from both inpatients and outpatients: lung biopsies, punctures of the pancreas, bladder, breast, thyroid and parathyroid glands, lymph nodes, pleural/pericarial/peritoneal fluids, neurological/neurosurgical samples, gynecological materials (Papanicolaou test),” EINAP said in a statement.

And continues: “The study of the above samples by a cytologist is important in the preoperative diagnosis of cancer and other diseases, and also contributes to treatment planning and monitoring of the course of the disease in patients, especially cancer patients.” According to the Union, the laboratory’s Pap smears come not only from patients at the Nice Hospital, but also from patients at the Agia Varvara Hospital, West Attica Psychiatric Hospital and Korydallos Women’s Detention Center Hospital. . “Cervical cancer prevention cannot be understood without a Pap smear. That is why the Nice Hospital cannot leave so many patients without this vital examination.