A&E doctors strike over staff shortages (updated)
Members of state doctors union Pasyki staged a 24-hour strike at A&E departments island-wide on Tuesday over acute understaffing issues which they say put patients...
Healthcare
Gesy questions raised after non-registered child needs ICU care
After a three-year-old child not registered with a Gesy GP was delayed in receiving required emergency transfer to the Makarios hospital, now under the management...
EU nationals still struggling to register with Gesy
Thousands of European foreign nationals living in Cyprus and who require specific residence permits to register with the national health scheme (Gesy) are stuck in...
Over 400 electric beds purchased for public hospitals
A batch of 469 new electric beds are being distributed to public hospitals island-wide in preparation for the national health scheme (Gesy), the health ministry...
London HIV patient becomes world’s second AIDS cure hope
An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow...
Where will new health scheme leave your healthcare?
By Nadia Sawyer Mention Gesy (the National Health Scheme) to anyone currently working in the private health sector or health insurance sector and they run...
Working for the benefit of doctors and patients
By Annette Chysostomou The Pancyprian association of private hospitals was created in 2004, working to help both doctors and patients and currently represents 77 per...
Healthcare put to use to promote tourism to the island
By Nadia Sawyer Medical tourism to the island is being used as a way of expanding the tourist season, an idea that was first floated...
Private clinics: more to them than meets the eye
By Annette Chrysostomou A growing service sector over recent years, the private hospital/clinic sector has also been expanding in districts with smaller populations largely thanks...
Money back guarantee on IVF treatments
Genesis Centre for Fertility & Human Pre-Implantation Genetics is a dedicated fertility institution that has provided human reproduction treatments for over 25 years. It is...
Why private doctors have so little faith in Gesy
People and businesses will start making monthly contributions to the national health scheme (Gesy) fund from March next year with the aim that the first...
Striving for excellence in retina care
Retina-Macula Clinic Mr Andreas Kontos BSc(Hons) MBChB(Hons) FRCOphth Doctor’s Profile Andreas Kontos graduated top of his class from the University of Manchester medical school in...
Using science to help people have a child
Scientific technology develops extremely fast and by following the flow of new techniques and applications that pop up in the IVF field daily up to...
Revolutionary treatment for intimate women’s health
Juliet is the revolutionary laser treatment for women’s intimate health, offering rapid, painless, effective and safe treatment for: Vaginal dryness Pain during intercourse Vaginal Relaxation...
Minimally invasive therapies without surgery
Interventional Radiology is a clinical sub-specialty of radiology that focuses on diagnosis and treatment of a large number of conditions by using minimally invasive techniques....
Break the cycle of long-term pain
Interview with Dr Periklis Zavrides How is the concept of pain defined? Does it involve subjective or objective elements? Or both? Today, the concept of...
