Okypy offers deal for state doctors to work afternoons
The health services organisation (Okypy)’s proposal to allocate 20 per cent of revenues stemming from potential state hospital’s afternoon operations to state doctors is now...
Healthcare
State doctors declare three-hour work stoppage
The state doctors’ union Pasyki and the board of directors of Pasydy have declared a three-hour work stoppage in public hospitals and health centres on...
Fifteen complaints received a day about Gesy doctors
The health insurance organisation (HIO) receives at least 15 calls a day from people complaining about Gesy doctors or service providers, its director said on...
Crisis at A&E departments, MPs told
Understaffed accident and emergency departments are struggling to cope, with one patient having to wait for 49 hours in Nicosia General Hospital’s casualty ward before...
Robot nurse to aid in Covid treatments in Egypt
A white-colored, feminine-looking android was standing imperturbably inside a lab of Cairo’s Ain Shams University, with members of her development team and reports via a...
Multiple Sclerosis Association seeks participants for health survey
Cyprus Multiple Sclerosis Association has called on locals to participate in an international survey to evaluate health care procedures. In a social media post inviting...
Gesy beneficiaries can now book specialist appointments online
The state health services organisation (Okypy) has officially launched its new revamped website on Thursday designed to facilitate the procedure of booking medical appointments online....
Pfizer vaccine effectiveness is down to 64%, Israel says
The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus has dropped to just 64 per cent in Israel, the country’s Ministry of Health said in...
Tenders invited as improvement to psychiatric hospital take step towards reality
Tenders were invited on Friday for the construction of a new mental health centre in Nicosia, part of the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, the...
Patent waivers for vaccines proposal supported by 5 EU nations
Five European Union Member States distanced themselves on Friday from the idea of waiving patent rights on coronavirus vaccines, saying the key to ending the...
Biden administration to back suspending Covid-19 vaccine patents
In a major shift on intellectual property rights, the US administration has backed lifting patents of Covid-19 vaccines in order to speed up vaccination of...
Accupuncture grows popular in Malta with other Chinese medicine
Chinese physician Jiang Yawen, 38, heading a team of five fellow doctors, has been on duty in Malta since last October. The 16th Chinese Medical...
Countries in Europe to make vaccines at home
In the German town of Dessau, one of the sites of the Bauhaus art school, an institute was set up in 1921 to mass-produce vaccines...
Auditor-general fears forced sale of hospitals if health services tank
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has assessed that the state health services organisation (Okypy) will be unable to cover its budget deficit by 2024, the date when...
Over 43,000 received Gesy inpatient care in six months
Over 43,000 beneficiaries of the national health scheme (Gesy) have received inpatient care since its launch, the health insurance organisation (HIO) told the health minister...
Mediterranean Hospital, launches vaccinations certified by Cyprus blockchain app — Aretaeio to follow
The Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus announced on Tuesday that it had vaccinated 100 doctors and personnel, and certified the vaccinations using the Cyprus-developed E-H Cert...
Govt warns of healthcare collapse if budget not passed (Updated)
Rejection of the 2021 state budget by parliament would lead to the collapse of the health system Gesy, the government warned on Wednesday as ruling...
New services available from Gesy from Tuesday
Additional services will be available under the general health scheme, Gesy, from Tuesday including preventive dental care, out-patients treatment for mental health, physiotherapy, occupational therapy,...
No shortage of pharmacists, EU stats show
Cyprus is ranked number seven on the list of EU member states when it comes to the number of pharmacists per inhabitant, Eurostat reported on...
Seven thousand free ops in first two months of Gesy inpatient care
Seven thousand operations have been carried out free of charge within two months of Gesy introducing inpatient care, the head of the patients’ association Marios...