Healthcare

The Cyprus health insurance organisation (HIO) on Monday broke its silence over mounting criticism about delays in approving innovative medicines, pointing to chronic understaffing and the complex nature of pharmaceutical ...

Cyprus remains heavily reliant on imported medicines, with only around 40 per cent of authorised pharmaceutical products actually available on the island, according to a European Commission staff working document on ...

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The House on Thursday enacted legislation creating the office of the patients advocate – a comprehensive mechanism to receive, process and make determinations on complaints filed by patients. Two relevant government ...

Cyprus’ first-ever national mental health strategy, covering the next three years, was unveiled on Friday by Health Minister Michael Damianos, who also announced that Athalassa psychiatric hospital will be upgraded ...

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Bone marrow transplant services that were set to be offered by a private Nicosia medical centre, are being hampered by state inefficiency, it emerged on Monday. The specialised unit at ...

State health services organisation (Okypy) chief executive officer Kypros Stavrides on Monday defended the delay in his organisation’s submission of its annual budget to parliament and the work of ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos on Saturday visited the Paphos general hospital to examine the progress made on renovations and upgrades to the hospital. He said on Sunday he had examined ...

The Nicosia general hospital is to introduce fees at its car park, the state health services organisation (Okypy) announced on Thursday. Okypy said there will now be a “controlled parking ...

Health Minister Michalis Damianos and the Deputy Health Minister of Greece, Marios Themistocleous, signed an updated public health agreement in Nicosia on Monday. The agreement includes the enhancement of medical ...

Paramedics have postponed their planned refusal to work overtime for two weeks until February 27, pending the approval of a bill to “protect” the profession by cabinet. Cyprus ambulance crew paramedics ...

“It is now possible” to place defibrillators in remote villages, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Sunday. In a social media post hailing the placement of a defibrillator in the ...

Paramedics belonging to trade union Isotita will refuse to work overtime between February 17 and February 23, in protest at what they describe as the “continuous understaffing” of the ambulance service. The ...

More than 1,500 cancer-related deaths and 4,000 new cases of the disease are reported in Cyprus every year, the Pancyprian Association of Nurses said on Tuesday, World Cancer Day. In Cyprus, around ...

Procedures are underway to open a new palliative care centre in the Paphos district village of Tala, the village’s mukhtar Yiannakis Kokkinos said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

The Cyprus pulmonology society on Thursday urged Health Minister Michael Damianos to approve a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for use Cyprus.  The society also seeks its inclusion into the ...

Civil servants’ trade union Pasydy on Wednesday expressed relief after the government agreed to put forward a bill to restore their full access to free healthcare outside Gesy. Following a ...

Abu Dhabi’s Pure Health Holding has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Hellenic Healthcare Group (HHG), valuing the healthcare provider at €2.2 billion, marking a significant expansion into Cyprus ...

Criteria set in 2023 for hospitals in the national health system (Gesy) have produced their first results, with a 92 per cent improvement of the quality of services provided, health insurance organisation (...

The Cyprus nurses and midwives association (Pasynm) has issued an open letter demanding that auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou, provide evidence to support the allegations he made against two nurses during a ...

Doctors have expressed their strong opposition over the “wrong message” they say was sent regarding their pay during the recent discussion of an auditor-general’s report on the state health ...

Ambulance paramedics in Cyprus on Friday voiced their frustration over long delays in enacting legislation to recognise and safeguard their profession formally. According to newspaper Politis, exasperated by what they ...

Despite progress in healthcare since the advent of Gesy in 2019, a number of gaps remain, particularly in terms of preventative medicine and long-term care, a new report shows. The 170-page ...