Health

Less than half of Cyprus’ HIV-positive population has a good quality of life, as social stigma continues to shun many carriers and many struggle to find work. The problems HIV-positive ...

The State Health Services (Okypy) has acquired two new state-of-the-art ambulance vehicles to enhance the response capabilities in the mountain regions. According to a statement released by Okypy on Monday, ...

A pilot scheme for the treatment of liquid hospital waste has been completed at the Larnaca hospital, removing huge amounts of pharmaceutical and pathogenic substances before they reach central sewerage ...

The Turkish Cypriot Federation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (Dev-Is) has begun registering retired Turkish Cypriots who worked in the Republic to the health system Gesy. Dev-Is explained they had been ...

By Dr Andreas Anagiotos Nicosia General Hospital, under the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy), houses the sole interdisciplinary skull base team in Cyprus. This highly-specialised unit focuses on the treatment ...

Parliament has officially ratified the agreement between the Republic and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to establish a regional WHO office in Cyprus. The agreement was signed by both parties ...

South Korea is ramping up pest control measures and inspections to prevent a spread of bedbugs after reports of suspected infestations at some saunas and residential facilities, officials said on ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) has requested more time to discuss with medical specialist companies to determine whether the referral a patient receives is urgent or not, Health Minister Popi ...

President Nikos Christodoulides hailed nurses on Friday, saying the government, nurses and midwives “share a common vision” to bring out the best of the health sector. Christodoulides’ words were read ...

The government will be ready to implement a programme for prostate cancer screening in the first three months of next year, Dipa MP Michalis Giakoumi said on Thursday. Giakoumi was ...

Public hospitals will be able to effectively handle increased needs for treatment linked to the conflict in the Middle East, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Thursday. In a meeting ...

Podiatry services are now included in Gesy for some categories of patients, as of Wednesday. The Pancypriot Association of Registered Podiatrists (Psep) said the move is “proof of the collective ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) has placed surgical procedures under a close watch, as reports emerged on Monday of over 90,000 operations carried out in the space of one year within ...

The Cyprus Turkish Medical Association (KTTB) said on Monday it had received numerous complaints regarding cosmetic procedures performed by unqualified people. They said the complaints pertained to procedures such as ...

Construction of the new Morphou hospital will be completed in 2024, according to the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel. Ustel visited Morphou on Monday and said “we will put out ...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in Cyprus, with 450 cases recorded per year, according to the Cyprus Cancer Registry. In addition, it is the second most common ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari is making efforts on Monday to resolve the stalemate over pay structure between public hospital workers and state health services organisation Okypy. The health minister stepped ...

Public hospitals are the “backbone” of the national health care system (Gesy) but they must become competitive, the health minister said on Friday. Speaking on CyBC radio, Health Minister Popi ...

Podiatrists will begin offering their services under the national health scheme (Gesy) on November 1, the health insurance organisation (HIO) announced on Wednesday. According the HIO, podiatrists will offer their services ...

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer for women in Cyprus, with almost a third of them affected by the disease getting breast cancer, the health ministry’s ...

By Andria Kades and Iole Damaskinos Healthcare workers in public hospitals went on a nationwide strike on Wednesday, leaving skeleton staff to handle caseloads amid demands for equal pay. Health ...

A doctors and nurses strike at all state hospitals will go ahead on Wednesday after an eleventh-hour meeting between the state health services organisation (Okypy) and trade union representatives failed ...

As the first of three specialised surgical interventions carried out by doctors from Shriners children’s hospitals in the US started at Makarios hospital in Nicosia on Monday, Health Minister ...

Consternation was caused at the Nicosia general hospital when a patient on oxygen lit up a cigarette causing a fire, it emerged on Tuesday. The patient was being treated in ...