Upgraded facilities for mentally ill promised
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...
athalassa psychiatric hospital
Coronavirus: Athalassa psychiatric hospital struggles with outbreak
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...
Blame game over helicopter’s Athalassa hospital damage
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...
Coronavirus: Psychiatric hospital staff call for immediate vaccinations
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...
Patient runs away from psychiatric hospital
Police are looking for the whereabouts of a 31-year-old resident who ran away from the Athalassa psychiatric hospital early on Monday afternoon. According to police,...
Coronavirus: Psychiatric patient released from cage after uproar
A patient at Athalassa psychiatric hospital who had to self-isolate in a room that was little more than a cage for days after testing positive...
Improvements to psychiatric hospital to begin immediately, minister says
The first phase of the new Athalassa psychiatric hospital is expected to be completed in 28 months, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos announced on Tuesday after...
Plans for new psychiatric hospital to be submitted in the coming days
The ministry of health on Thursday responded to allegations made by state nurses’ union Pasyno regarding the ‘third-world working conditions’ at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital....
Protest over working conditions at psychiatric hospital
State nurses’ union Pasyno on Wednesday said it was considering strike measures to protest state inaction over the ‘third-world working conditions’ of colleagues at the...
Health ministry criticised for delays at Athalassa psychiatric hospital
The plan to upgrade Athalassa hospital, the only state psychiatric hospital in Cyprus, is expected to be completed by the end of October, Health Minister...
Cyprus has second lowest number of psychiatric hospital beds in EU
Cyprus has the second lowest number of psychiatric hospital beds among EU member states, just 21 per 100,000 inhabitants, Eurostat reported on Wednesday on the...
Mother who killed her son 12, committed to psychiatric hospital
A 40-year-old woman suspected of stabbing her son, 12, to death in Nicosia on Thursday has been committed to a psychiatric hospital for treatment, police...
Severe schizophrenic who killed father to be hospitalised
The Larnaca criminal court in Monday said that its decision to admit a 34-year-old man accused of killing his father last April to the state...
MPs repeat call for new psychiatric hospital
Despite recent improvements at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital, infrastructure problems persist, MPs said on Monday calling for the construction of a modern new unit. Two...
Seven Missing identified at Athalassa
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has identified the remains of seven people found at the Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou said on...
Child stabbing suspect ‘a victim of an indifferent system’
Children’s rights commissioner Leda Koursoumba on Thursday condemned the fact that the 13-year-old boy who allegedly fatally stabbed his nine-year-old sister was admitted to the...
Call for relatives of persons buried at Athalassa to provide DNA
By Annette Chrysostomou The families of missing persons need to provide genetic material to the commission for humanitarian affairs in order to facilitate the identification...
Council of Europe report raises concerns of police abuse
A Council of Europe anti-torture report published on Thursday raises concerns over allegations of police abuse, prison overcrowding and poor conditions in psychiatric and social...
Under the surface of shiny new wards, old problems lurk at Athalassa
By Andria Kades WITH some fanfare earlier this month, and a visit from President Nicos Anastasiades, two wards at the Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital in Nicosia...
Commissioner warns Athalassa dead could be higher than thought
The remains of a number of missing persons buried in the area of the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia could be greater than originally thought, Humanitarian Affairs...