Healthcare

Nurses’ union Pasyno on Monday spoke of “miserable conditions” in which nurses are expected to work, in the aftermath of floods which hit the Paphos general hospital on Saturday evening. “...

Treating severe strokes was the focus of a conference in Limassol, which offered an opportunity to health professionals, scientists, patients and the public to meet and discuss the latest developments ...

Pharmacists at the Limassol general hospital on Monday called an immediate strike over changes to the hospital’s pharmaceuticals department’s management structure. The strike was called by the pharmacists’ ...

Pharmacists at Limassol General Hospital will stage a 48-hour strike on October 21 and 22 to protest having worked without a head pharmacist for the past four months. During the strike, employees ...

Medical equipment worth €60,000 was on Tuesday donated to the paediatric clinic of Makarios hospital by the Australian Hellenic Medical Charity and the Cypriot community of Adelaide. The donation includes diagnostic ...

The treatment of breast cancer is the health ministry’s top priority, Minister Michael Damianos said on Saturday. Speaking at an event at the Nicosia general hospital, he drew attention ...

The €5 million state-of-the-art haemodialysis unit in Paphos, inaugurated on Friday by President Nikos Christodoulides and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, is solid proof of the importance of solidarity, ...

The Cyprus Medical Association on Sunday called for an “urgent review” of safety measures at accident and emergency departments in Cyprus’ hospitals after a patient attacked staff at the Nicosia ...

The Cyprus Turkish nurses and midwives union on Tuesday announced that an interim order had been issued in their favour regarding a lawsuit they had filed against the north’s ‘...

Gesy is kicking off its new awareness campaign on Thursday with TV spots aimed at making patients think twice before using the national health scheme if it is not absolutely ...

Steps were taken on Thursday towards the creation of a new ambulance service, with Health Minister Michael Damianos attending the House health committee to put forward his position on the ...

A man is suing a doctor and the hospital at which he was treated after undergoing an operation on his left knee when he had intended to undergo an operation ...

Seven pharmacies that have secured an interim court order and operate as they please complained on Thursday about the ruckus being caused by the pharmacists’ association clamouring to have the ...

Pharmacists’ patience “has run out” over the issue of opening hours, pharmaceutical association chairman Ploutarchos Georgiades said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said his frustration is ...

The U.S. government’s first-ever negotiated prices for prescription drugs are still on average more than double, and in some cases five times, what drugmakers have agreed to in ...

Half of the island’s ambulances are sitting unused, it was reported on Tuesday, due to a failure to reach an agreement between private ambulance providers and the state. Eighty ...

Figures from the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) show that the number of patients taking antidepressant drugs almost doubled in Cyprus in the past five years: from 33,470 in 2019 to 64,611 in 2023. On ...

Faced with ever-increasing discouragement at home, Greek doctors are seeking work in Cyprus, and according to a press report this weekend flooding Gesy. Understaffing, poor infrastructure and low wages are ...

The general health system (Gesy) is financially robust and projected to remain solvent at least through to the year 2031, an official asserted on Monday. Angelos Tropis, a senior official with ...

Turkish Cypriot doctors on Friday warned of staff and infrastructure shortages at accident and emergency departments across the north as demand continues to rise. Cyprus Turkish medical association (KTTB) secretary-general ...

Over €41 million was paid in 2023 to private hospitals for treating patients referred through the national health scheme (Gesy), with one medical establishment in Cyprus receiving over €6 million. According to information ...

Legislation has been prepared for the creation of the role of a “patient advocate”, with the bill expected to be brought to parliament in the near future. The bill is ...

The federation of Cyprus patients’ associations (Osak) said on Monday it “expects a response” from President Nikos Christodoulides to their suggestions over the future of ambulances’ operation in Cyprus. They ...

Limassol medical centre director Andreas Pantazis on Wednesday called for private ambulances to be included in Gesy. In an explosive letter written to Health Minister Michael Damianos, he said the ...