Posts tagged with "health"

Our View: Gesy seems to have been reduced to a points-scoring exercise Our View

Our View: Gesy seems to have been reduced to a points-scoring exercise

August 19th, 2018 ROWS about Gesy (national health scheme), involving the government and different interest groups of the health sector, have become a regular feature of public life. A few weeks ago, the Cyprus Medical Association released a report claiming that the remuneration of doctors with private practices that joined the scheme would be extremely...
Doctors creating ‘climate of panic’ over Gesy choices Health

Doctors creating ‘climate of panic’ over Gesy choices

August 16th, 2018 PARENTS will be able to choose their paediatricians and specialists without limitations under the planned national health scheme, or Gesy, the health insurance organisation (Oay) said Thursday, calming fears after a short-lived spat between the health ministry and the island’s paediatrician’s society. On Tuesday, the society had...
New renal unit for Paphos hospital 'on the way but no time-frame yet' Health

New renal unit for Paphos hospital 'on the way but no time-frame yet'

July 26th, 2018 By Bejay Browne Three million euros has been approved by the government to construct a much-needed renal unit at Paphos General Hospital. The decision was confirmed to the Cyprus Mail by Minister of Health, Constantinos Ioannou.  He said that price tag was based on an estimate of preliminary costs. However, the minister was...
New hemodialysis unit inaugurated at Nicosia general Health

New hemodialysis unit inaugurated at Nicosia general

July 23rd, 2018 A new hemodialysis unit was inaugurated at Nicosia general hospital on Monday, worth €2.2m and set to help up to 240 patients a day. Reading out a speech by President Nicos Anastasiades, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said the some of the biggest reforms in the health sector were taking place including bills for the autonomy...
Contaminated frozen veg withdrawn from market Health

Contaminated frozen veg withdrawn from market

July 17th, 2018 Health authorities have warned the public not to eat a specific brand’s frozen mixed vegetables because they are contaminated with a bacteria that causes food poisoning. The products have already been recalled and withdrawn by the company, but authorities say some packages may already be in the hands of consumers. Iceland’s...
Queen knights state health services board member Cyprus

Queen knights state health services board member

June 15th, 2018 David Haslam, one of the eight board members of the newly established organisation of state health services (OKYY) and professor of general practice at the University of Nicosia Medical School since 2014 has been knighted in the Queen’s honours list. Professor Haslam has been given the honour in recognition of his services to the...
Disease warning as tick numbers especially high this year Cyprus

Disease warning as tick numbers especially high this year

June 10th, 2018 By Annette Chrysostomou A SURGE in ticks this year brings with it an increase in the tick-borne Lyme disease which can seriously damage numerous organs in the human body. For years, there has been a steady rise in the number of ticks around the world, and with the season starting early due to mild winter weather, numbers in Cyprus...
Ambulances unable to carry anyone weighing over 181.2kg Health

Ambulances unable to carry anyone weighing over 181.2kg

June 7th, 2018 The state health services have no ambulance capable of carrying a person weighing more than 181.2 kilos, the health ministry said Thursday after it was reported that an ambulance had refused to carry an overweight patient from Larnaca hospital to Nicosia. A statement released on Thursday said the doctor on duty at Larnaca general...
State deal with German Oncology Centre back on track (Updated) Health

State deal with German Oncology Centre back on track (Updated)

June 6th, 2018 By George Psyllides A deal for the referral of cancer patients to a newly-created private facility was back on track on Wednesday after another private clinic withdrew an appeal it had submitted to the tender review board about a week ago. According to the chairman of the German Oncology Centre, Kikis Kazamias, the appeal filed by...
HIV+ individuals to be granted allowance (Updated) Cyprus

HIV+ individuals to be granted allowance (Updated)

May 30th, 2018 The cabinet on Wednesday decided to grant HIV positive individuals a monthly allowance for which a budget of €1,980,000 has been allocated. Each person will get a monthly allowance of €300 from July 1, 2018. The purpose of the scheme is to give HIV positive individuals an incentive to comply with their treatment schedule. The...
Cyprus ranks 26th globally in access to and quality of health services Health

Cyprus ranks 26th globally in access to and quality of health services

May 25th, 2018 By Annette Chrysostomou Cyprus is ranked 26th in the world in terms of access to health services and quality of health services, according to the new Healthcare Access and Quality Index (HAQ). Iceland is ranked first before Norway and the Netherlands. At the bottom of the list of 195 countries and territories are Guinea Bissau,...
Minister and doctors put differences aside for now Health

Minister and doctors put differences aside for now

May 24th, 2018 By Evie Andreou State doctors and the health minister have put their differences aside for now to resolve the problems plaguing public hospitals, the head of union Pasyki, Soteris Koumas said on Thursday. Following a meeting with the minister, Constantinos Ioannou, the head of the state doctors’ union Pasyki, said that the two...
Almost half of Cypriot kids now overweight, Mediterranean diet 'gone' Health

Almost half of Cypriot kids now overweight, Mediterranean diet 'gone'

May 24th, 2018 By Annette Chrysostomou Of all Europeans, Cypriots have the highest rate of overweight and obese children, 43 per cent of both boys and girls, the latest figures of the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed. The research, which included 300,000 children between the ages of 6 to 9 clearly shows Mediterranean countries, which are...
Cheaper meds drive consumers north Health

Cheaper meds drive consumers north

May 20th, 2018 By Elias Hazou MORE and more Greek Cypriots, particularly those feeling the financial pinch, are crossing to the north for cheaper medicines, while others buy in bulk while visiting Greece. This past week the Association of Pharmaceutical Companies warned the public not to buy meds in the north due to concerns over safe storage and...
Ambulance service inundated with calls from jittery parents and teachers Cyprus

Ambulance service inundated with calls from jittery parents and teachers

May 18th, 2018 Authorities urged people on Friday to refrain from calling the ambulance service for non-emergencies, after receiving scores of calls daily from jittery parents and teachers for minor injuries following the death of a 10-year-old boy after a school accident last week. According to the head of the ambulance service, Riana Constantinou,...
Hospital autonomy will be a long process, minister says Health

Hospital autonomy will be a long process, minister says

May 18th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Hospital autonomy, the first step toward the implementation of the National Health Scheme (Gesy) will be a long process, especially in secondary and tertiary healthcare, but efforts are already underway to assist in this effort, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Thursday. The minister said that many...
Ambulance crew cleared after claims of wrongdoing Cyprus

Ambulance crew cleared after claims of wrongdoing

May 3rd, 2018 Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said Thursday a probe found no wrongdoing after allegations that an ambulance crew in Paphos had refused to carry a woman to hospital because her trousers had been soiled. A statement issued by the minister said the state ambulance service had responded to Monday’s incident and acted in line with...
Majority of Cypriots feel healthy Cyprus

Majority of Cypriots feel healthy

April 23rd, 2018 Eighty per cent of respondents in Cyprus in a new European survey said they were in good health, putting Cyprus tenth of EU countries. This is one of the results of a special Eurobarometer report published on Monday on fairness, inequality and inter-generational mobility in the EU. Respondents who agree they are in good health are...
New info website for patients with rare diseases Health

New info website for patients with rare diseases

April 17th, 2018 The Cyprus Alliance for Rare Disorders (CARD) has launched a website which provides all necessary information to people suffering from rare diseases, including services and legislation on patients’ rights. Health Minister, Constantinos Ioannou, said the new website is expected to be a reference for all people suffering from a rare...
Waiting lists still too long, patients' advocates say Health

Waiting lists still too long, patients' advocates say

April 15th, 2018 The association for patients has sent the health minister a lengthy memorandum outlining 26 issues that need to be addressed urgently before the introduction of the new health scheme. Top among the issues they see is the continued problems of long waiting lists, despite effort recently by health authorities to address the problem by...
Three new radiographers at Kyperounda hospital Health

Three new radiographers at Kyperounda hospital

April 4th, 2018 Three new radiographers have been assigned to Kyperounda Hospital in the Troodos area as part of plans to turn the facility into a regional clinic and cut down on time and visits to Limassol hospital, the health ministry said. “With this development and with the continued availability of radiographers at Kyperounda Hospital,...
Nearly 80 per cent of Cypriots say their health is good or very good Health

Nearly 80 per cent of Cypriots say their health is good or very good

April 2nd, 2018 More than two-thirds (67.5 per cent) of people aged 16 or over living in the European Union (EU) and 78.7 per cent in Cyprus, perceived their health status as very good or good in 2016, according to data released by Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU. In contrast, less than a tenth (8.8 per cent) assessed their level of...
The story of dust: fact and fiction Cyprus

The story of dust: fact and fiction

April 1st, 2018 From the orange-tinged snow in Russia to schoolkids in Cyprus banned from playing outdoors, the dust-laden skies of recent weeks have become the major topic of conversation. Social media has been atwitter with possible causes – the war in Syria and climate change are the most common – and duration – the dust storms are much more...
Autism: facing up to the challenge of difference Cyprus

Autism: facing up to the challenge of difference

April 1st, 2018 They say it takes a village to raise a child but if that child is on the autism spectrum, it seems like it takes a city. In the two years that we have known that our son is on the spectrum, we have done just that, we have built a city of professional educators, therapists, child psychiatrists and child neurologists. We knew that we...
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