Healthcare

Figures from the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) show that the number of patients taking antidepressant drugs almost doubled in Cyprus in the past five years: from 33,470 in 2019 to 64,611 in 2023. On ...

Faced with ever-increasing discouragement at home, Greek doctors are seeking work in Cyprus, and according to a press report this weekend flooding Gesy. Understaffing, poor infrastructure and low wages are ...

The general health system (Gesy) is financially robust and projected to remain solvent at least through to the year 2031, an official asserted on Monday. Angelos Tropis, a senior official with ...

Turkish Cypriot doctors on Friday warned of staff and infrastructure shortages at accident and emergency departments across the north as demand continues to rise. Cyprus Turkish medical association (KTTB) secretary-general ...

Over €41 million was paid in 2023 to private hospitals for treating patients referred through the national health scheme (Gesy), with one medical establishment in Cyprus receiving over €6 million. According to information ...

Legislation has been prepared for the creation of the role of a “patient advocate”, with the bill expected to be brought to parliament in the near future. The bill is ...

The federation of Cyprus patients’ associations (Osak) said on Monday it “expects a response” from President Nikos Christodoulides to their suggestions over the future of ambulances’ operation in Cyprus. They ...

Limassol medical centre director Andreas Pantazis on Wednesday called for private ambulances to be included in Gesy. In an explosive letter written to Health Minister Michael Damianos, he said the ...

Cabinet discussed on Wednesday the implementation and expansion of the mountain community development strategy aiming to halt urban migration. President Nikos Christodoulides described the strategy as “the most important issue” ...

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Nursing and midwifery unions on Thursday called on the state to help improve the image of their profession by tackling working conditions, wage scales and other terms of employment through ...

Opposition Akel on Wednesday called out President Nikos Christodoulides and his government for what it calls a failure to fix the problems in the health system, Gesy, which the party ...

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) human medicines committee (CHMP) is recommending that the marketing authorisation for a liver disease drug be revoked because its benefits are no longer considered ...

The shortage of nursing and midwifery staff in Cyprus must be tackled effectively, Health Minister Michalis Damianos said on Tuesday. He called on all young men and women, as well ...

The children’s and oncology ward at Limassol general hospital has been left without AC since Sunday amid extreme temperatures around the island. Following complaints by a number of patients, ...

A medical association on Monday said it was preparing ‘necessary legal action’ against the Health Insurance Organisation amid a spat between the two. The diagnostics association (Pasydike) stressed it was ...

The finance ministry on Saturday condemned the planned 48-hour strike by doctors in public hospitals that is set to paralyse the health system next week. The doctors’ union Pasyki said ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos on Friday spoke in favour of a European Union proposal to stipulate that all patent holders for all medicinal products placed on the market ensure their ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) warned on Monday that the absence of adequate infrastructure for elderly care could compromise the effective functioning of the healthcare system in Cyprus. A report ...

Nurses fumed on Monday over reported plans to reduce the minimum Greek language requirement for third country nationals who wish to practise nursing in Cyprus. Trade union Pasydy expressed “strong ...

Nurses will be taking further measures against state health services organisation (Okypy) after both failed to reach an agreement on staffing issues during a meeting on Monday. “We will escalate ...

Tensions have reached boiling point over the planned construction works at Makarios children’s hospital, with paediatricians joining parents of children in the oncology department in voicing their strong opposition ...

Nurses’ unions and the state health services organisation (Okypy) decided on Monday that they would reconvene on June 6 to continue their deliberations over understaffing. In statements after the three-hour meeting, ...

Nurses will hold a work stoppage outside public hospitals on Thursday to protest understaffing, union representatives announced on Tuesday. “For a year now, even after signing the agreement stating a ...