Health

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) will appoint an investigator to examine complaints that three patients were turned away from A&E departments, its chief said on Friday. Speaking to ...

An eight-year-old is being treated at Makarios hospital in Nicosia after she was found to have a Strep A infection. According to Politis, the girl was taken to the hospital ...

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Friday urged health ministers across the bloc to assess their coronavirus protocols and be well prepared amidst a surge in infections in China. Health ...

The Public Service Commission has reinstated Veterinary Services Christodoulos Pipis, whom it had suspended amid an investigation into an outbreak of Brucellosis in cattle in a Larnaca livestock farm. A ...

The health ministry on Thursday said it would establish a special scientific committee to study and evaluate the presence of long Covid in Cyprus. The aim of this committee is ...

The health minister will convene an extraordinary Covid advisory committee on Monday as nations impose restrictions on travellers from China amid its surge of the virus. China, undergoing up to ...

Countries are imposing or considering imposing curbs on travellers from China amid a COVID-19 surge there after authorities relaxed ‘zero-COVID’ rules. They cite a lack of information from China on ...

‘Authorities’ in the north have detected Asian tiger mosquitoes in Kyrenia after special mosquito traps were laid in some areas, local press reported on Wednesday. Media reports refer to statements ...

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 ...

Two more private hospitals are set to start operating within the national health scheme Gesy in 2023, director of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Tuesday. Speaking to ...

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 ...

BioNTech has initiated a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial of its BNT165b1 malaria vaccine candidate using mRNA technology, the German company announced on Friday. The Phase 1 trial is expected to ...

Larnaca residents are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to quality healthcare from the town’s general hospital, according to House Speaker Annita Demetriou. During a ...

A woman donated her kidney to her husband, offering him the ultimate gift of life before Christmas, state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Thursday. The operation was successfully carried ...

A €7.8 million national blood bank centre will be built in Nicosia in two years from now, the government announced on Tuesday. During the contract signing ceremony, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela ...

The Cyprus agricultural payments organisation (Koap) has contributed a total of €717,900.16 to a programme aimed to instil healthy eating habits in school-aged children, the organisation announced on Tuesday. A correct ...

The four-year-old child hospitalised with strep-A is too ill to be transferred to Israel for the time being but the health ministry is on standby for any changes to the ...

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 ...

The state health services Okypy is doing everything possible to tackle the increasing number of children in hospital during the winter period, it said on Friday amid increasing unrest across ...

Scientists have recently revived several large viruses that had been buried in the frozen Siberian ground (permafrost) for tens of thousands of years. The youngest virus to be revived was ...

Cypriot ophthalmologist, Dr Theodoros Potamitis has been selected to be a specialty examiner for the UK’s Royal College of Ophthalmology examinations. After receiving the invitation from the Royal College ...

Doctors working in the paediatric department at Larnaca general hospital went on an impromptu two-hour strike on Thursday over staff shortages. They accused state health services Okypy of being indifferent ...

Doctors in Paphos’ general hospital A&E department will stage a three-hour strike on Friday over problems the state health services (Okypy) are blatantly ignoring, Pasyki union said on ...

Strep tests will be distributed to paediatricians as part of the additional measures announced by the health ministry on Monday after the recent outbreak of streptococcus type A infections in ...