#athalassa psychiatric hospital

The new mental health centre in Athalassa, Nicosia, was inaugurated on Monday, with President Nikos Christodoulides speaking of a long-overdue project. The existing psychiatric hospital in Athalassa dates to 1964. Now ...

Trade union Pasydy on Monday expressed their fury at the omission of a previously touted second phase of construction of a new psychiatric hospital at Athalassa from government plans to ...

Police are investigating allegations that a 30-year-old man was beaten up by staff at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital. The case came to light on Alphanews over the weekend after the ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari announced on Friday that the government is set to publish a national strategy for mental health next year. Kanari was speaking to staff at the Athalassa ...

The need to develop a comprehensive national strategy for those grappling with mental health conditions emerged during Monday’s House human rights committee meeting. The discussion revolved around severe deficiencies ...

Police are investigating a fire that broke out in a ward at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital on Thursday, with one patient suffering burns and another respiratory problems. According to Fire ...

A spat broke out on Thursday between the state health service organisation (Okypy) and the nurse’s union Pasyno, after the latter claimed that patients at the Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital ...

Appalling conditions and overcrowding at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital resurfaced on Tuesday, following the publication of pictures of the facility on social media. Increased admissions, medicine shortages, chronic understaffing, and ...

Nursing staff at Athalassa psychiatric hospital staged a two-hour work stoppage on Friday to protest overcrowding and understaffing at the facility. According to the nurses’ branch of the civil servants’ ...

Police late on Monday said they arrested a 41-year-old man who had escaped from Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia early in December. The man was wanted for escaping from legal ...

State health services organisation Okypy on Monday said it would create a guest house for mental health patients who have nowhere to go after being discharged from the Athalassa state ...

Health professionals at the already overcrowded Athalassa psychiatric hospital are pulling overtime as they strive to process increased daily admissions plus the five patients and one nurse who have tested ...

Officials on Thursday pointed fingers at each other after a helicopter allegedly damaged a newly renovated ward of the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia. On Tuesday evening, a helicopter transporting ...

Nurses at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital on Thursday condemned the health ministry for not including them in the first round of vaccinations. In a written statement the staff of the ...