#Organisation of State Health Services (Okypy)

Parliament on Thursday night unanimously approved the budgets of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) and State Health Services (Okypy). Okypy’s total budget for 2024 foresees expenditure totalling at €761.8 million, and ...

A grieving son has claimed he was asked to take his dead mother’s body home with him as the air conditioning at his local hospital’s morgue was broken. ...

Sixty people, mostly elderly, are being treated in public hospitals for Covid-19 at the moment, while there is a constant flow of patients with infections, state health services organisation (Okypy) ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari announced on Friday that she will meet with medical union representatives and members of the state health services organisation (Okypy) next week. This comes after it ...

An official complaint has been filed to police on Friday by state health services organisation (Okypy), after a woman complained that a nurse had locked her husband in a hospital ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari is making efforts on Monday to resolve the stalemate over pay structure between public hospital workers and state health services organisation Okypy. The health minister stepped ...

Construction began on a new solar farm at the Nicosia general hospital on Friday. The first phase of the solar farm project is set to be completed in January, with ...

Plans to increase revenue and save costs in the state health services (Okypy) were discussed at an intergovernmental meeting on Friday. The meeting was attended by President Nikos Christodoulides, Health ...

A spat broke out on Thursday between the state health service organisation (Okypy) and the nurse’s union Pasyno, after the latter claimed that patients at the Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital ...

A stroke patient who waited for about seven hours on a stretcher at the Paphos accidents and emergency department “is receiving full medical care” state health services organisation (Okypy) said ...

State health services organisation (Okypy) on Tuesday defended the handling of a cancer patient who allegedly had to wait over three hours at the Paphos hospital’s accidents and emergency ...

The labour union Peo said on Friday that they will react with lightning fast speed if the state health services organisation (Okypy) continues to ignore the problems being faced by ...

Pulmonology, pathology and ICU wards in hospitals managed by the State Health Organisation (Okypy) are facing overcrowding due to an increase in seasonal flu cases, a statement released on Wednesday ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Thursday praised healthcare professionals in Cyprus for their dedication and hard work throughout the Covid pandemic, saying it was thanks to their ‘heroic’ efforts that ...

Doctors and nurses at state hospitals threatened to intensify strike action as they held a two-hour work stoppage on Tuesday demanding the state health services organisation (Okypy) renew their collective ...

Hospital staff operate in a purely therapeutic capacity, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Tuesday, adding that nurses and doctors cannot be expected to stand in the ...

The pulmonology and related wards at public hospitals are under immense strain due to the influx of admissions. Okypy’s spokesman Charalambos Charilaou told RIK on Tuesday morning that the ...

Patient organisations expressed outrage on Tuesday over allegations that an elderly person was found tied to their hospital bed using bedsheets. Demanding the state health services (Okypy) investigate the matter, ...

Nurses union Pasyno and civil servants union Pasydy have called on the authorities to take measures following incidents involving aggressive behaviour against nurses at accident and emergencies departments around Cyprus ...

Polis Chrysochous hospital will get a day care ward counter to the demand of residents for the reoperation of the inpatient ward which closed during the peak of the coronavirus ...

Afternoon outpatient clinics will start operations as of Monday, following an agreement reached between the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy) and the doctors’ and nurses’ unions on July 11. All specialities ...

More than half the smokers who took part in last year’s programme for quitting smoking, kicked the habit, said the state health services (Okypy). Okypy said, that 436 people participated ...

Hospitals and health centres registered in the national health scheme will be upgraded with 42 major development projects amounting to €52 million, state health services organisation (Okypy) announced on Friday. The projects, ...

The behaviour of some public sector unions during the pandemic has been a disgrace. Instead of helping the government deal with the emergency situation, they have been going out of ...