MPs prepare to take on threat to ban foreign doctors from Gesy
An amendment to the law which would prevent the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) from stopping the employment of foreign doctors in the National Health Scheme...
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Medical association calls on members not to join Gesy
The Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) has decided to call on its members not to join the national health scheme (Gesy), a decision which is widely...
Private urologists say no to Gesy, but minister remains upbeat
By Evie Andreou Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou gave reassurances on Wednesday that enough private doctors will join the National Health Scheme (Gesy) for it...
Private doctors say Gesy is poorly planned and poorly funded
By a Staff Reporter Just months before the first stage of the long-awaited national health scheme (Gesy) is finally launched, the Cyprus Medical Association is...
Our View: No surprise that private doctors pulled out of Gesy talks
As was expected, private doctors stopped consultations with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) about the National Health Scheme (Gesy), claiming they could no longer participate...
Private doctors’ demands over Gesy impossible says minister
The standoff in the health sector intensified on Monday after the government dismissed as impossible some of the demands private doctors have made in exchange...
Health Minister calls foul on medical association for not playing ball on Gesy
By Evie Andreou HEALTH Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday censured the medical association (CyMA) after it emerged it had urged members not to participate in...
National health system must be viable, say doctors
The Cyprus Medical Association (PIS) is in favour of the introduction of the national health system (Gesy), provided that it is built on strong foundations...
Doctors welcome new health scheme study
The Cyprus Medical Association on Monday welcomed the finance ministry’s intention to prepare a new study on implementing a viable national health scheme (Gesy) with...
NHS funding would need to double to ensure healthcare for all
THE implementation of a National Health Scheme (NHS) is imperative in order to provide the poor and underprivileged who are dying unnecessarily in hospitals with...
Our View: Medical Association has always acted too much like a union
MINISTER of Health Giorgos Pamborides had a dig at the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) on Monday for its failure to investigate its members and issue...
Minister hits back at Medical Association over arrested doctors
Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis said on Monday that the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) is confused as to its responsibilities over investigating its own members. Speaking...
Investigation into doctor accused of asking for a bribe
An elderly woman is accusing a state doctor of asking for a €3000 sweetener so that he would take her sick husband off a waiting...
‘No room at the inn’, or clinic, for HIV tourist
By Evie Andreou THE HEALTH ministry and the Medial Association (CyMA) have launched investigations into claims that a British tourist who is HIV positive was...
Our View: Do doctors think they should be above the law?
THE GOVERNMENT’S attempt to make Cyprus’ roads safer has stumbled on objections from the Cyprus Medical Association (CMA), which seems more concerned about protecting the...
Doctors fear prosecution in approving over-75 drivers
THE Cyprus Medical Association has objected to government plans to punish doctors who may issue competence certificates to elderly people who want to renew their...
The ethics of withholding test results
By Andria Kades THE HIPPOCRATIC Oath, which binds all doctors to uphold certain ethical standards, and real-life practices within the private health sector do not...
Public health at risk with NHS delay, says medical association
By Andria Kades PUBLIC health is threatened by the current state of affairs in the health service, described as tragic and dangerous by the Cyprus...
Medical association issues quack alert
By Evie Andreou FOLLOWING the arrest of a woman earlier in the week for being an alleged charlatan, and two women claiming to be dentists,...
Quackery ‘getting out of control’
By Stefanos Evripidou THE ECONOMIC crisis has seen an increase in quackery that is getting out of control, warned a Cyprus Medical Association (CMA) official...