Hospitals across Cyprus were between 85 and 90 per cent full during the holiday period, with that figure set to rise over the coming days in the aftermath of festive gatherings, state ...
Health Minister Michael Damianos on Thursday said he is considering ways to involve the private sector in accident and emergency units in Cyprus.
Speaking to the House health committee, he ...
Nine patients are currently being treated with flu-related infections in intensive care units across Cyprus, two of whom are under the age of 40.
State health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos ...
Nurses’ trade union Pasyno on Friday decried understaffing at Cyprus’ hospitals, declaring that hospitals “cannot depend on overtime” and thus requesting that they be “appropriately and sufficiently staffed”.
They expressed “...
Ten flu-related deaths have been recorded this season in Cyprus, primarily among vulnerable elderly individuals with underlying health conditions, while one infant died of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), health ministry ...
The situation at state hospitals remains manageable as efforts continue to address the ongoing flu outbreak, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charilaos Charilaou said on Tuesday.
Charilaou noted a ...
An elderly person died of influenza A on Friday, bringing the death toll this winter to four.
The man was being treated at a private hospital with severe symptoms.
On ...
The first fatality from influenza A in Cyprus this year was confirmed today at Nicosia general hospital, where a 43-year-old man succumbed to the virus while being treated in the ...
Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou on Thursday called on the public to be patient as waiting times at state hospital A&E departments began to skyrocket.
This is due to ...
Solving the problems that exist in public hospitals is the primary goal of the health ministry, said Minister Michalis Damianos on Thursday.
Damianos made these remarks from Famagusta General, part ...
The 24-hour strike slated to take place across public hospitals on July 23 has been cancelled, unions announced on Thursday.
Peo and Sek unions said the state health services (Okypy) had ...
The general secretary of Akel Stefanos Stefanou fired a broadside against the government on Wednesday for the situation at public hospitals, claiming that these were on the brink of collapse ...
Nurses are “often treated with contempt”, trade union Pasydy’s nursing branch said on Friday.
In a statement released ahead of International Nurses Day on Sunday, the union said nurses ...
The renovation project of existing spaces and the creation of new ones at the Paphos general hospital is expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2024, according to an ...
Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Tuesday that the children’s accident and emergency (A&E) department at Nicosia General is expected to start operating later this month.
In ...