Five eye patients set to go home, two suffer relapse
Two of the eight patients who suffered eye infections after cataract surgery at the Apollonion hospital have undergone a relapse, their current ophthalmologist Theodoros Potamitis...
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Fifty per cent more flu vaccines being received this year
Cyprus will be receiving around 50 per cent more Type A flu vaccines this year, as authorities expect more people would want to get vaccinated....
Minister calls for end to trials by media for Gesy problems
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday called for an end to trials by media over problems in Gesy, arguing the system is not to blame...
Health care providers to be fined for issuing health card information
The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on Wednesday said it would fine Gesy health providers that offer services to beneficiaries for the issuance of health cards...
State health workers on board with expanding working hours
State doctors and nurses on Monday said they were on board with an idea pitched by their union, Pasydy, on expanding the working hours of...
‘Private hospital cut short man’s surgery, sent him packing because they needed the room’
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday called on the Cyprus Medical Association to investigate a complaint that a private hospital interrupted surgery on a Gesy...
Excess operations putting a strain on Gesy
An excess number of operations, even some that are unnecessary, appears to be latest problem facing the national health scheme Gesy, as these are seen...
Our View: With unions running the show state hospitals will remain dysfunctional
Everything is unravelling at state hospitals, which have been going from one crisis to another with no end in sight. Okypy, the state health service...
Brits beat Brexit with Cyprus move
Combination of Brexit, Gesy and good virus record lure Brits to Cyprus Growing numbers of British nationals are preparing to move to Cyprus ahead...
October deadline for inclusion of other specialties into Gesy still stands, HIO says
October 19, the date on which other specialties were scheduled to join the health system (Gesy) still stands, a senior official said on Friday, as...
Psychologists doubt successful implementation of Gesy second stage
The successful implementation of the second stage of the national health scheme (Gesy) is doubtful, the psychologists’ association said on Friday, taking a swipe at...
Dentists seeking better deal with Gesy for single service
Dentists want a better deal with the health insurance organisation (HIO) on the only service they will be providing as part of Gesy and have...
Paphos doctor creates storm by slamming Gesy for not delivering what it had promised
Director of Gesy operator HIO Andreas Papaconstantinou on Tuesday called on the deputy head of the Paphos general hospital’s cardiology clinic to resign after he...
Patient associations call for role in Gesy
President Nicos Anastasiades is positively eyeing the participation of patients on boards and committees concerning health issues, deputy government spokesman Panayiotis Sentonas said on Tuesday....
Ioannou asks HIO for systematic assessment of Gesy
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou has urged the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) to tweak the road map for the full rollout of services envisaged under the...
Seven thousand free ops in first two months of Gesy inpatient care
Seven thousand operations have been carried out free of charge within two months of Gesy introducing inpatient care, the head of the patients’ association Marios...
Prescriptions for Gesy patients from non-Gesy specialist doctors scrapped
The health ministry on Wednesday said specialist doctors not under Gesy will no longer be able to prescribe specialised drugs to beneficiaries of the public...
Gesy headed down the same road as defunct Co-op Keve warns
Gesy, unless managed properly, could share the same fate as the now defunct Co-operative Bank, Christodoulos Angastiniotis, head of the chamber of commerce and industry...
Small clinics complain of unfair treatment by HIO
Two clinics that joined Gesy on Saturday accused the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) of unfair treatment as regards the fees it pays small and large...
Changes at A&E will not affect beneficiaries, Okypy says
The inclusion of public hospitals’ accident and emergency (A&E) departments in Gesy changes nothing for beneficiaries, as they will continue to receive the same services...
