#doctors

Demetrios Bestitzanos is a doctor, specifically an internist. A few years ago, around the time he turned 50, he decided to relocate from Athens – where he’d been studying and working ...

Doctors and representatives of state health services organisation Okypy will meet on Wednesday at noon to discuss several points, most importantly the parameters for an agreement on the financial incentives ...

The greed of public hospital doctors seems to have no bounds. Although they are among the best-paid employees on the island – Okypy estimates their annual salaries are in the region ...

The health ministry and the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) have prepared a plan to incentivise gynaecologists and obstetricians to perform natural births instead of caesareans (C-sections), it emerged on Wednesday. ...

Health practitioners aged over 75 will be removed from the national health scheme (Gesy), the national health insurance organisation (HIO) said. The decision was taken at the last meeting of the ...

Public doctors in Cyprus, some of whose annual salaries have surged to €150,000 since the implementation of the national health scheme (Gesy), are now in dispute with their employer, the state ...

The amount being paid to some public hospital doctors in overtime and allowances are beyond belief. The audit office’s annual report on Nicosia general hospital recorded a case of ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) needs better control over its budget allocation, the head of the house health committee and Disy MP Efthymios Diplaros said on Thursday, following a discussion ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) has begun its comparison of doctors’ salaries from 2022 and the second half of 2023 when quality criteria and performance indicators were introduced, it emerged on Thursday. ...

Turkish Cypriot police said that a total of 74 people have been arrested so far during investigations into the “fake prescription scandal”. The scandal concerns the alleged writing of fraudulent prescriptions ...

Doctors without borders Cyprus will be sending a mission to Rafah in Egypt to deal with patients and victims of Israeli attacks in Gaza, an announcement said Thursday. The team ...

Safe and sustainable disposal of medical waste is causing concern among environmental observers, fuelled by the apparent refusal of some health professionals to comply with existing regulations. Despite current legislation ...

Cyprus will face a shortage of doctors and nurses in five years, a capacity planning study from the health ministry showed, as most registered doctors are over the age of 41. ...

State doctors, nurses and midwives on Tuesday called on hospitals operator Okypy to implement protocols and security measures to protect healthcare workers from attacks by patients, especially those in the ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari, concerned about the long waiting times for appointments with specialist doctors, met bosses of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) to discuss ways of reducing these. The ...

Turkish Cypriot doctors said on Thursday they are now “scared to write prescriptions” as arrests continue in the ongoing fake prescription scandal. The scandal has gripped the north in recent ...

Police investigations into the north’s fake prescription scandal will be completed within 10 days, ‘labour minister’ Sadik Gardiyanoglu said on Thursday. Speaking in a television interview, he said: “Police have ...

State doctors’ union (Pasyki) lamented the absence of comprehensive planning and coordination between the competent authorities after the Limassol general hospital was downgraded on Friday. The hospital was downgraded to “...

Hundreds of doctors’ offices in Cyprus have no disability access in their offices, despite an obligation to do so dating back to 2011, the House human rights committee heard on Monday. ...

Turkish Cypriot police have arrested seven more people in connection with a n investigation to the forgery of medical prescriptions, reports from the north said on Sunday. The seven arrests ...

Doctors “were not consulted” about the planned extension of afternoon outpatient clinic hours, the doctors and clinical directors branch of civil servants union Pasydy said on Wednesday. Health minister Popi ...

State doctors’ union Pasyki on Monday condemned an “unprovoked violent physical attack” on a psychiatrist at Limassol general hospital. The attack took place on August 18, though details thereof have not ...

The ER at Paphos general hospital runs a risk of not properly working on Monday due to a shortage of doctors, head of the government-employed doctors union Sotiris Koumas said ...

The Cyprus medical association on Thursday was looking into disciplinary procedures for a father-son doctor duo who were arrested for collaborating to illicitly grab money off Gesy. The father, 62 was ...