#Doctors' strike

Turkish Cypriot doctors on Friday went on a full-day strike, citing a laundry list of shortcomings on the part of the north’s ruling coalition, and saying that health services ...

Consultations on financial incentives for public doctors are to be rediscussed at the health ministry on Thursday. Doctors’ unions Pasyki and Pasydy are to meet once more with Health Minister ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos on Sunday said he is “optimistic” that an ongoing dispute between doctors and the state health services organisation (Okypy) will be resolved within the week. He ...

There will be “no escalation” of strike action taken by doctors, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Tuesday. He was speaking after a meeting with doctors’ unions which took place ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou was careful in her wording on Tuesday when she said her party was looking into a way around the decades-old contentious issue of strikes in essential ...

The state will not bow to pressure that does not have public interest at its epicentre, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday evening, referring to the state hospital doctors’ planned 48...

State hospital doctors will go ahead with their planned 48-hour strike on Tuesday and Wednesday after a last-ditch meeting with the state health services organisation (Okypy) ended in impasse on ...

State health services Okypy will be submitting a new proposal by Monday regarding the millions of euros in incentives state hospital doctors are demanding, with doctors saying they would not ...

State hospital doctors will be going on a 48-hour strike at the end of the month, Pasyki union announced on Wednesday after another failed attempt to clinch a deal with ...

The planned 48-hour strike by public hospital doctors scheduled to take place from Tuesday to Thursday has been called off following extensive discussions between the doctors’ unions, the state health ...

The 48-hour strike called by doctors at public hospitals for next Tuesday and Wednesday isn’t certain to go ahead. These disputes often tend to get settled at the last ...

The finance ministry on Saturday condemned the planned 48-hour strike by doctors in public hospitals that is set to paralyse the health system next week. The doctors’ union Pasyki said ...

Efforts are being made to avert a doctors’ strike, scheduled for July 2 and 3, Health Minister Michalis Damianos has said. Meanwhile, doctors in state hospitals have postponed scheduled theatre and outpatients ...

Doctors at public hospitals are going on a 48-hour strike next week after failing to reach an agreement with state health services organisation (Okypy), it emerged on Wednesday. The strike ...

Doctors at public hospitals decided Tuesday to call off a strike they had planned for this coming Thursday, saying they were willing to give their employer one last chance. Physicians ...

Public hospital doctors will stage a 24-hour strike on June 20, threatening escalated measures on July 2 and 3 if they are not compensated in full for the hours they put in. In ...

Hospital staff are to go on an eight-hour strike on October 25 as the spat between trade unions and the state health services (Okypy) remains unresolved. The strike, scheduled for between 7...

Israeli doctors declared a strike on Tuesday and more army reservists have asked to halt service in a public backlash over the hard-right government’s ratification of the first stage ...

The 24-hour strike planned for Thursday by public hospital doctors in protest over uncertainly in medical malpractice suit insurance is unnecessary, spokesman of the state health services organisation (Okypy) Charalambos ...

Doctors working in the paediatric department at Larnaca general hospital went on an impromptu two-hour strike on Thursday over staff shortages. They accused state health services Okypy of being indifferent ...

A doctors’ strike over security issues in A&E departments scheduled for later this week has been cancelled, the health ministry said on Tuesday. In a statement, the ministry ...

State doctors went ahead with their planned three-hour stoppage between 8 and 11am on Wednesday, threatening to step up measures if their demands are not met. Members of state doctors’ union ...

The scheduled three-hour work stoppage of state doctors on Wednesday morning has put on hold surgeries and other appointments, but anti-coronavirus vaccinations continue. State doctors’ union Pasyki and doctors, members ...