Healthcare

Latest version of bill on ambulances gathering dust since 2019 Despite promises, the long-awaited bill regulating the ambulance services has been delayed again, three years after it was submitted to parliament. ...

Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) struck a $43 billion deal for Seagen Inc (SGEN.O) to add innovative targeted therapies to its portfolio of cancer treatments as it braces for a steep ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO), it emerged on Tuesday, has instructed all hospitals to cut down on surgeries requiring intensive care unit (ICU) stays. The organisation stated that ICU bed ...

Generic medications save consumers millions of euros but yet in Cyprus, beneficiaries of Gesy still don’t trust or choose them, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said on Monday. Generic ...

Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) plans to spend $1 billion on drug research and development in the US this year as it works to double its sales in the country by the ...

The government aims to improve state health services (Okypy) hospitals, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Monday, stressing that efforts should be focused on improving Gesy. Speaking after a meeting ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos’ office on Monday denied a report that claimed he said the national health scheme (Gesy) was a black hole of funds. According to the finance ministry, ...

If the national health scheme (Gesy) fails, the whole state will collapse with it, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Saturday. She said that the she believes a quantitative and ...

Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N) said on Wednesday it would reduce prices by 70 per cent for its most commonly prescribed forms of insulin. The US drugmaker said the reduced ...

The first ever crossover organ transplant involving Cyprus and Israel took place on Wednesday after two kidneys were exchanged at the old Larnaca airport in the morning. The effort follows ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) is lying about the incident involving an elderly woman pictured laying naked in a hospital bed, the doctor Marios Kyriazis said on Wednesday. In ...

Geroskipou municipality announced the opening of a mammography centre this week as the health ministry called on women over 45 to get their free biennial exam as part of the breast ...

A newly established committee has been tasked with rolling out a number of measures and protocols to combat problems in intensive care units (ICUs), Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on ...

Efforts to induct more occupational therapists into the national health scheme Gesy will continue, operator Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said on Monday. The HIO “fully respects” the occupational therapists’ association’...

The children’s specially designated accidents and emergencies department (A&E) has started operating at Nicosia general hospital, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela announced on Wednesday. According to the minister, ...

All issues with the collective agreement for state health services (Okypy) employees will be open for discussion, the organisation’s spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Wednesday. The issue involves medical ...

Cans for Kids charity has donated essential respiratory medical equipment for newborns to the Makarios children’s hospital, the health ministry said on Monday. After raising funds through the recycling ...

Last year was another pivotal year for Gesy, operator Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said on Wednesday in a statement taking stock of the national health scheme’s work in the ...

A meeting chaired by Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Monday afternoon did not succeed in averting a two-hour strike by doctors and nurses at state hospitals scheduled for Tuesday. The ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Monday inaugurated a new trauma unit at Nicosia general hospital, saying it was an important step in upgrading health services in Cyprus. “It is with ...

Patient organisations expressed outrage on Tuesday over allegations that an elderly person was found tied to their hospital bed using bedsheets. Demanding the state health services (Okypy) investigate the matter, ...

A state-of-the-profession review of the past year, reveals an absence of support in the working environment, burnout, understaffing, and lack of opportunities for professional development, the Pancyprian nurses and midwives ...

The increase in rate of admissions for viral infections in public hospitals observed recently continues, spokesman for the state health services (Okypy), Charalambos Charilaou, told CNA on Tuesday. In particular ...

Nicola Osypka’s German company has been selling medical devices used in surgery on newborn babies in Europe for decades, but new European Union rules have forced her to make ...