Health

The Cyprus patients’ federation (Osak) has urged the health ministry to scrap plans for separate laws regulating public and private hospitals. Instead, they are calling for a unified legal framework ...

The Cyprus Association of Liver Patients “Promitheas” launched a new information campaign on Friday, focusing on the risks and prevention of fatty liver disease. According to the association, approximately 25 per ...

Public sector doctors’ trade union Pasyki on Friday expressed fury at the fact that the state health services organisation (Okypy) had not sent a representative to Thursday’s House health ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos on Thursday said he is considering ways to involve the private sector in accident and emergency units in Cyprus. Speaking to the House health committee, he ...

The Cyprus nurses and midwives association (Pasynm) has issued an open letter demanding that auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou, provide evidence to support the allegations he made against two nurses during a ...

More children are being admitted to Makarios III children’s hospital in Nicosia over the past few days, mainly due to flu A, with the hospital currently at 85 per cent ...

Doctors have expressed their strong opposition over the “wrong message” they say was sent regarding their pay during the recent discussion of an auditor-general’s report on the state health ...

Nine patients are currently being treated with flu-related infections in intensive care units across Cyprus, two of whom are under the age of 40. State health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos ...

Nurses’ trade union Pasyno on Friday decried understaffing at Cyprus’ hospitals, declaring that hospitals “cannot depend on overtime” and thus requesting that they be “appropriately and sufficiently staffed”. They expressed “...

Ambulance paramedics in Cyprus on Friday voiced their frustration over long delays in enacting legislation to recognise and safeguard their profession formally. According to newspaper Politis, exasperated by what they ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) keeps posting deficits, its budget continues to grow despite a sharp drop in the admission of patients, and it has lax controls over personnel, ...

Makarios Hospital in Nicosia announced on Thursday its plans to expand and renovate its neonatal intensive care unit (ICU). The project, estimated to cost €6.549 million plus VAT, is set to ...

Prostate cancer remains one of the most prevalent cancers among men worldwide. For patients with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer, innovative treatments such as targeted radioligand therapies (RLT) are offering ...

Pulmonologist Dr Alexis Papadopoulos, speaking on Sigma TV’s Protoselido, warned that high dust levels pose dangers not only to members of vulnerable groups but to the entire population. With ...

Ten flu-related deaths have been recorded this season in Cyprus, primarily among vulnerable elderly individuals with underlying health conditions, while one infant died of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), health ministry ...

Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition causes ill-health, according to a new framework drawn up by experts and endorsed ...

The situation at state hospitals remains manageable as efforts continue to address the ongoing flu outbreak, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charilaos Charilaou said on Tuesday. Charilaou noted a ...

Mountainous villages in the Paphos region have called for a fully staffed ambulance station, operational around the clock, to be set up in Statos Ayios Photiou, as well as an ...

The situation in public hospitals is manageable, Health Minister Michalis Damianos said on Sunday, amid hospital bed shortages resulting from a spike in the number of patients seeking treatment due ...

With four people already dead and five intubated with complications from flu and seasonal infections, people with a cough or fever are flocking to state hospital emergency departments seeking immediate ...

The blood bank has sent out an urgent plea to the public to donate blood over the weekend, as reserves are running so low they can barely cover one day....

The first fatality from influenza A in Cyprus this year was confirmed today at Nicosia general hospital, where a 43-year-old man succumbed to the virus while being treated in the ...

London-based Cypriot Michael Kyriacos Efstratiou is appealing to people on the island to find a stem cell donor after he was diagnosed with leukaemia. Efforts to find a compatible stem ...

By Charalampos Stylianou Public hospitals are facing mounting pressure due to a surge in seasonal respiratory infections, with influenza and Covid-19 spreading rapidly across the community. According to the spokesperson ...