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...
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A&E doctors to receive more money to stop exodus to Gesy
The cabinet on Wednesday agreed to raise the monthly financial incentive to A&E doctors from €800 to €1,200, in an attempt to tackle the severe...
Medics at Limassol A&E issue staffing SOS
Medics at the Limassol general hospital A&E have alerted the state doctors’ union Pasyki that the unit is understaffed but jam-packed with patients who cannot...
Remanded doctors failed to notice boy’s fatal skull injury (Updated)
Stavros Giorgallis, 10, died from a skull fracture, pathologist Marios Matsakis said on Saturday, following a post-mortem examination on the boy. Earlier, Larnaca district court...
Extra state nurses appointed to reduce waiting times
The Cabinet on Monday approved the hiring of 66 nurses for six months in public hospitals to reduce waiting times at first aid departments and...
A&E department to be created at Makarios hospital
The cabinet on Wednesday approved the creation of an Accident and Emergency Department for mothers and children at the Makarios Children’s Hospital in Nicosia. The...
Nurses seek restoration of shift allowance
State nurses asked on Monday that their slashed shift allowances are fully restored after the cabinet decision last week to give €500 as a monthly allowance to doctors working...
Extra allowance for doctors in A&E departments
The health ministry announced on Wednesday that the cabinet had approved a €500-monthly allowance to doctors working at the accident and emergency departments of state hospitals...