CyFPA

Medical Shield
Goals

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The initiative group ‘Medical Shield’ has set the following goals to ensure that the doctors practicing medicine in Cyprus have the necessary and recognized qualifications, competence, and knowledge.

Goals

  • The existing complaints regarding doctors with fake degrees should be promptly clarified by the legal service and other competent authorities, such as the Cyprus Medical Association, and brought to the attention of the criminal court. Simultaneously, the university that issued the fake certificates should be excluded from the list of recognized universities due to their content.
  • Request should be made to the competent Minister of Health to conduct an investigation from 2004 until today to ascertain how many doctors have the equivalence and corresponding qualifications for their degree from KYSATS as provided by legislation for their registration in the Cyprus Medical Register. Our request is that those who do not possess the KYSATS certificate but, according to legislation, should have had it before being registered in the doctor’s register, their certificates should be re-evaluated according to the law. The same should apply to the recognition of each doctor’s specialization. The Minister in charge should request an investigation to verify if each specialized doctor holds the necessary certificates required by legislation and approved by the Cyprus Medical Council to practice medicine in that specific field.
  • Modernization and empowerment of the legislative framework for the immediate and strict punishment of doctors engaging in misleading advertising and posting of specialties they do not legally hold, along with the mandatory display of the corresponding recognized title everywhere.
  • Modernization and reform of the doctor registration law and the establishment of the CMC aiming to create an independent body that will assess and recognize the degrees and specialties of doctors, as well as promote education and reassess the adequacy and knowledge of doctors. (We aim to implement a system similar to the operation of the English General Medical Council (GMC) applied in the United Kingdom within the healthcare system in Cyprus because it has proven to ensure quality and safe healthcare services for the country’s citizens).

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