Health service to start charging for excessive GP visits
The island’s state health services organisation (Okypy) announced that it would begin charging Gesy beneficiaries for excessive visits to family GPs and paediatricians, In its...
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Medical association insists it should be represented on board of HIO
The Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA) on Thursday the body should be represented on the board of directors of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), after its...
Diagnostic centres operating ‘in a lawless environment’, MPs hear
Diagnostic centres, particularly radiological facilities, effectively operate in a lawless environment, often carrying out unnecessary MRIs or using outdated and potentially hazardous machinery. What’s more,...
Medical association says crooked doctors the exception, not the rule
Hot on the heels of news that a doctor was facing criminal charges for allegedly sending fictitious invoices for payment, it emerged on Thursday that...
Audit office exposes Gesy gravy train, one doctor paid €870,742 (Update 1)
A scathing report by the auditor-general has alleged illegalities within Cyprus’ health care system, while identifying 11 Gesy doctors who each earned over €500,000 in...
Doctors in botched cataract operations case charged
Two doctors were charged in writing and their case is expected to go to court next week after a patient died and seven others suffered...
State doctors concerned over suspension of non-urgent surgeries
State doctors’ union Pasyki on Tuesday expressed concern for the future of public hospitals citing the recent decision to postpone non-urgent surgeries. Saying the union was not...
Afternoon hours for state hospitals on table for talks next week
State health services organisation (Okypy) on Friday said they would meet the state doctors’ unions next week to discuss the afternoon operation of state hospitals,...
Doctors with suspected fake degrees still practising medicine, patients group says
Police have investigated 11 people suspected of practising medicine with fake medical degrees, over the past six years, they said on Friday. The issue came...
Coronavirus: Medical association denies delay in investigating ‘anti-vax’ doctors
The Cyprus Medical Association (CMA) on Friday denied delays in investigating complaints that some doctors were encouraging their patients not to get vaccinated against the...
