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Police investigations into the north’s fake prescription scandal will be completed within 10 days, ‘labour minister’ Sadik Gardiyanoglu said on Thursday. Speaking in a television interview, he said: “Police have ...

State doctors’ union (Pasyki) lamented the absence of comprehensive planning and coordination between the competent authorities after the Limassol general hospital was downgraded on Friday. The hospital was downgraded to “...

Hundreds of doctors’ offices in Cyprus have no disability access in their offices, despite an obligation to do so dating back to 2011, the House human rights committee heard on Monday. ...

Turkish Cypriot police have arrested seven more people in connection with a n investigation to the forgery of medical prescriptions, reports from the north said on Sunday. The seven arrests ...

Doctors “were not consulted” about the planned extension of afternoon outpatient clinic hours, the doctors and clinical directors branch of civil servants union Pasydy said on Wednesday. Health minister Popi ...

State doctors’ union Pasyki on Monday condemned an “unprovoked violent physical attack” on a psychiatrist at Limassol general hospital. The attack took place on August 18, though details thereof have not ...

The ER at Paphos general hospital runs a risk of not properly working on Monday due to a shortage of doctors, head of the government-employed doctors union Sotiris Koumas said ...

The Cyprus medical association on Thursday was looking into disciplinary procedures for a father-son doctor duo who were arrested for collaborating to illicitly grab money off Gesy. The father, 62 was ...

A&E doctors in Paphos are set to go on strike next Thursday, citing severe understaffing at the general hospital’s emergency department. The strike, by members of Pasyki ...

The Cyprus Medical Association on Tuesday lamented the public shaming of doctors, calling on people to refrain from repeatedly slamming them. The association said doctors’ values cannot be subject to ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) has announced that contact details for on-call doctors are available through the Gesy website as well as on the agency’s official social media accounts. ...

Doctors and nurses at state hospitals have decided to go on a two-hour work stoppage next week, in a bid to exert pressure for having certain collective agreements renewed. Unions ...

An administrative court on Thursday nullified the suspension of two doctors from Makarios hospital, who were suspended in connection the death of a 15-year-old girl. The 10-page decision by the ...

Cyprus is the only EU country without a university hospital despite the fact there are three medical schools in the country, University of Cyprus’ medical school professor of neurology Georgios ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Monday said he would be holding a series of meetings in an attempt to find a compromise that would satisfy state doctors, who announced a ...

Two doctors at the Makarios children’s hospital who were suspended on half pay pending an investigation into the death of one of their patients have reportedly appealed their suspension ...

The three-month suspension of two doctors at Makarios hospital, pending a police investigation into their involvement in a case of alleged medical negligence, appears not to have been thought through ...

Doctors suspended from their work over medical negligence investigations in the death of a teen should not be victimised, the Cyprus Medical Association (Cyma) said on Saturday. In a statement ...

Personal doctors (GPs) and patients have hit out against the trimming of the number of referrals to specialists within the healthcare system, following changes made earlier this year to crackdown ...

As of November 1, doctors who have a private practice within hospitals contracted with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) but who themselves are not registered with the national health system will ...

A probe expected to wrap up by year’s end should give a clearer picture as to how many individuals are practicing medicine without the requisite qualifications, having taken advantage ...

The number of generalist medical practitioners per 100,000 inhabitants in Cyprus stood at 95.4, which was the 10th highest in the EU27, according to figures published by Eurostat. Generalists have to be ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) on Thursday suggested that the June 2024 target for public hospitals to attain financial autonomy may have to be pushed back, but critics countered that ...

A law proposal regulating the use of an app is to be prepared by October for patients to communicate directly with their doctors and have immediate access to medical help ...