Healthcare

Increased pressure on public hospitals due to a continuous flow of patients with seasonal infections, Covid-19 and other cases is leading to 100 per cent occupancy rate in state hospitals, the ...

Patients’ rights are still not fully realised – as enshrined in the European Charter of Patients’ Rights – despite Gesy having been up and running for two years, according to discussions held ...

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 being evaluated by doctors’ ...

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 Wednesday, from 8-11am. “Absence, ...

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 Monday. On a monthly basis, 500 of ...

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 he was examined and treated, ...

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 touch screen on her ...

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 people to participate in the ...

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. The website – which can be ...

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 a statement on Monday. The ...

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 transport ministry said. The ...

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 COVID-19 pandemic was making more ...

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 those in need worldwide. The ...

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 Team for Malta offers traditional Chinese ...

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 that later helped strengthen the German ...

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 the state support is due to ...

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 in a conference call on Monday. ...

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 blockchain app. The Aretaeio Hospital in ...