There have been complaints of bags of medical waste piled up in the car park and broken lifts at Limassol Hospital, at times obliging visitors to share a lift with waste, and on one occasion with a dead patient, Active radio reported on Thursday.
The hospital director Emmelia Vounou said that she had asked for an investigation as to how visitors ended up in a lift transporting a deceased patient.
She said a private company was in charge of removing the medical waste, and did not know why there there has been a delay.
She confirmed that one lift had not been repaired because of a problem with spare parts and these were expected by tomorrow.
At times relatives of patients have had to share a lift with nursing staff and with rubbish bins. But they were not exposed, she said.
And she said hospital staff should not have allowed visitors to use a lift that was transporting a dead patient.
The employees should have prevented a member of the public from entering the lift when a deceased person was being transported. The issue has just come to my attention and I am investigating it, she said.
