#athalassa hospital

A 35-year-old man from Limassol has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following an attack at a pharmacy in Chlorakas on Monday. He is expected to be transferred to ...

The government has been paying €6,000 a month for the past four years for facilities intended for people with autism which do not yet exist, the House health committee heard on ...

A memorial service was held on Monday in memory of the patients and staff killed during the July 20, 1974 bombings of the Athalassa psychiatric hospital by Turkish jets. The mental health ...

The 50-year-old man who stands accused of shooting and killing his brother-in-law in the Paphos district village of Peyia was hospitalised at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital after undergoing a psychiatric ...

The mental health nursing staff branch of trade union Pasydy will participate in the public nurses’ one-hour work stoppage to protest understaffing on Thursday. The announcement came just hours after ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Jonathan Shkurko A patient suspected of setting fire to his room at Athalassa psychiatric hospital is in serious condition in the Nicosia General intensive care unit (...

Patients at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital are being kept in a “hostage situation” due to a lack of social services allowing them to be discharged, the state doctors’ union Pasyki ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari was informed about the progression of works to create mental health centre on Monday, during her visit to Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital. The first phase of the ...

Mental health in Cyprus needs to be prioritised, civil servants’ union Pasydy said on Monday, calling on stakeholders to work towards finding solutions for patients having to deal with mental ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Thursday it was doing “everything humanly possible” for mental health patients, less than a week after Athalassa psychiatric hospital staff protested understaffing ...

A €12m contract for the first phase of a new psychiatric health hospital in Nicosia was signed on Thursday, with the move hailed by ministers as a major step towards ...

Conditions for patients and staff alike at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital are at breaking point, which could lead to a disaster, a nurses union warned on Tuesday. In a statement, ...

The old Latsia health centre is to be converted into a hostel to house people suffering from long term mental illness, which will also help prevent congestion on the Athalassa ...

Psychiatric patients have been left behind by the national health scheme (Gesy), state doctors union (Pasyki) said on Wednesday as they went ahead with a three-hour work stoppage at the ...

Saying the relevant bodies are “deaf” to their requests for an improvement in mental health care, a group of state doctors employed at the Athalassa mental health hospital said on ...

The five nurses who refused to carry out their duties at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital over a Covid case last year committed a disciplinary offence, but no action will be ...

The new mental health centre planned for Athalassa psychiatric hospital will be a “historic moment of progress” for mental health services, state health services (Okypy) said on Friday. Tenders for ...

The health ministry said on Thursday it will press ahead with a disciplinary investigation of a number of mental health professionals despite threatened strike action from state nurses’ union Pasyno. ...

Despite endless promises, there’s little sign of a new psychiatric hospital By Gina Agapiou Nurses at Cyprus’ sole state psychiatric hospital say they are near ‘burnout’ as they struggle ...

Nurses at Athalassa mental hospital were due to start an impromptu two-hour work stoppage on Friday demanding quality health care for patients and better staff protection. Pasydy mental health professionals ...

Athalassa hospital has reached 120 per cent capacity, mental health nurses said on Thursday and called on the government to implement a plan to protect staff and patients. Increased admissions during ...

Police have made an appeal for information after two patients have gone missing from the Athalassa hospital. They are looking for Theodoros Topouzides, 20, from Greece and Loizos Demetriou, 26, both of ...