Vip Terminal For Larnaca Airport

Cyprus’ legendary hospitality will by the summer be better reflected by Larnaca Airport’s new Heads of State Lounge and Executive Aviation Terminal.

Although news reports this week suggested that the state and airport operators had been scrambling to create a new VIP lounge in time for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in early June, an industry insider yesterday told The Cyprus Weekly that the plans had been in the pipeline since before the Pope’s visit was announced.

The Council of Ministers is in the coming week expected to formalise a provisional agreement between Hermes Airports and Skylink Services Ltd, a private company with over a decade of VIP passenger handling experience at both Larnaca and Paphos Airports. The industry source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the plans did not involve a VIP lounge as such but rather a combined Heads of State Lounge and Executive Aviation Terminal, to be housed within the old airport building.

An official close to the project, meanwhile, told reports that Skylink will be responsible for renovating the space to presidential standards and creating an area for media statements by dignitaries, a waiting area for reporters and offices for the police , civil aviation and Customs officials. The company will also be expected to provide all VIP services including  maintaining the Lounge and Terminal and transferring VIPs to and from their planes.

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EU-backed Stations To Check The Air That We Breathe

The first of four European Union-financed air quality measuring stations was opened in Gazi Magusa this week at a ceremony attended by Tourism  ,Environment and Culture  Minister Hamza Ersan Saner and Allesandro Vizzier from the EU programme Support Office.

The station, in the grounds of the Osman Fazil Polat Pasa Mosque, near the Sakarya roundabout, will measure air pollution as well as wind movement, temperature, radiation and humidity.

Mr Saner explained that four stations were being set up in Lefkosa, Gazi Nagusa, Girne and Alevkayasi and the total coast of the project was 700,000 euros. He said the stations would be run by the TRNC at an annual cost of 100,000 euros.

He pointed out that one of the major pollutants in the TRNC was gases emitted by power plants and , as a result, they would be setting up three more air quality measurement stations at Teknecik and Kalecik.

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Sceptical

Health Committee Chairman Costas Constantinou was doubtful the new target date to introduce the NHS will be met.

“I am afraid to say that the Health Ministry and the Health Insurance Organisation will not be ready to meet this new target, because all the prerequisites will not be ready in time.

There are major issues still pending , like training fanily doctors and rendering hospitals autonomous which is a necessary precondition to implement the NHS.

There is also the issue of reaching a convergence between all finanvial contributors to the scheme,” said Constantinou.

How it works

With the implementation of the NHS, patients will be able to first visit their family doctor in the event of a health problem.

The family doctor will see whether he can deal with the problem or refet it to a specialist doctor of the patient`s choice.

Expenses will be covered by the contributions made to the scheme by everyone. Choosing NHS treatment will be free of charge and optional. Patients choosing to see private doctors will have to pay their own medical expenses or at least part of them.

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Emergency Phones

Lefkoşa-Nicosia-Lefkosia         Police       228 3311

Emergency    112

Hospital     2285441

Fire      199

Forest Fire   177

Girne-Kyrenia

Polıce  815 2014-815 2125

Emergency   112

Hospital    815 2266

Fire   199

Forest Fire   177

Gazimagusa- Famagusta-Ammochostos

Polis   366 5310 – 366 5321

Emergency    112

Hospital   366 5328

Fire  199

Forest  Fire   177

Güzelyurt-Morphou

Police  714 2140 – 7142141

Emergency  112

Hospital  723 6329

Fire   199

Forest Fıre   177

İskele-Trikomo

Police  371 2333

Emergency  112

Hospital  371 2319

Fire  199

Forest Fire  177

Emergency Phones

Fire           199

Police      155

Fırst Aid     112

Forest  Fire    177

Coast  Guard    158

Karpaz Police  381 2325EMERGENCY PHO

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Hospital and Health Centers

Lefkoşa-Nıcosıa-Lefkosıa

Government Hospital Burha Nalbantoğlu       Tel.  228 5441 -  2232441

Magusa-Famagusta-Ammochostos

Magusa Government Hospıtal                 Tel.   366 4400  -  366 5328

Girne-Kyrenia

Doctor Akçiçek Government Hospıtal            Tel.  815 2254

Güzelyurt-Morphou

Cengiz Topel Government Hospital          Tel. 7277351

Health Centres                                 Tel:

Güzelyurt Health Centres          714 2125

Lefke  Health Centres                 728 7757

Serdarlı Health Centres             376 6004

Akdoğan Health Centres          377 7341

Geçitkale Health Centres         373 3356

Yeni İskele Health Centres     371 2319

Yeni Erenköy Healt Centres   374 4333

Lefkoşa Health Centres           227 3996

Kamu Health Centres              227 4682

Lapta Health Centres              821 8322

Esentepe Health  Centres      823 6352

Dipkarpaz Health Centres     372 2184

Değirmenlik Health Centres 232 3464

Maraş Health Centres            366 3615

İnönü Health Centres             777 8119

Akıncılar Health Centres       242 2099

Tatlısu Health Centres          389 2224

Mehmetçik Health Centres 375 5076

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