Over €74m in EU funds to boost health system (Updated)
Over €74 million from the €1.2 billion allocated to Cyprus from the Cyprus Recovery and Resilience Plan will go to strengthening the health system over the...
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Tributes pour in to mark International Nurses Day (Updated)
Health officials on Wednesday paid tribute to nurses in honour of International Nurses Day, with President Nicos Anastasiades and Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou extending thanks...
More Cypriots turning to internet for health info
Cyprus had the second highest increase in the number of people looking for health information online among EU member states in the last decade, the...
Gesy cost €780m to run last year, revenues came to €840m
Revenue from contributions to the health system Gesy amounted to €840 million in 2020, a senior official told the Cyprus News Agency on Sunday. Angelos...
Rare disease affects 50,000 Cypriots, research shows
More than 50,000 Cypriots live with a rare disease, recent research by the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) and Karaiskakio Foundation has shown....
Plans for hospital and rehabilitation centre in Engomi
Interest has been expressed in the construction of a large rehabilitation and hospital care centre in Engomi near the Nicosia state fair, Engomi municipality announced...
A health service at war with itself
The past week saw state health services organisation (Okypy) trading barbs with unions representing government doctors and nurses, the latter accusing the former of haphazardly...
Nurses union slams ‘bad administration’ of state hospitals
State nurses’ union Pasyno proposed referring patients to the private sector and suspending non-emergency procedures, as well as getting nursing staff off desks in a...
New tech could monitor patients’ vital signs touch-free
Research involving a partnership with Frederick University research centre has resulted in the development of a new technique which monitors a patient’s vital signs completely...
Rejection of state budget would severely impact health sector, minister says
Rejection of the state budget would severely impact the health sector, depriving it of funds for covid vaccines and directly affect peoples’ daily lives with...
HIO to cap referrals by personal doctors
The health insurance organisation will limit the number of referrals by personal doctors as part of efforts to promote primary health care, it emerged on...
More flu jabs if needed
Additional flu vaccines will be ordered if demand exceeds the 135,000 on order, the state health insurance organisation said on Thursday. To date, Cyprus received...
Radiographers to stage two-hour strike
Radiographers performing CT scans in public hospitals will go on a warning strike on Friday morning, they announced on Wednesday. The two-hour work stoppage will...
Health ministry insists has ordered more flu jabs than advised
The health ministry said on Tuesday it had ordered more flu vaccines than advised by the competent agency, while it was trying to secure more...
Eyesight of five of eight cataract op patients irreversibly damaged (Updated)
Five of the eight patients who got infected during a cataract surgery are expected to suffer irreversible eye damage. “The condition of their health remains...
Patients infected during cataract surgery in serious condition, probe underway (Update 2)
Apollonion private hospital on Sunday said it has followed all indicated procedures as regards the post-surgery complications eight of its patients who underwent cataract surgery...
More investment needed in children’s mental health amid pandemic, NGO says
NGO Hope For Children on Friday called for more investment to be made in supporting the mental health of children and provide easy access to...
Kyriakides says pandemic brings opportunity for change
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides on Saturday spoke of both the serious effects and the opportunities of the Covid-19 pandemic in...
Prominent lawyer proposes bicommunal Covid hospital at old Nicosia airport
A hospital in the abandoned Nicosia airport in the buffer zone, providing health care to Covid-19 patients from both sides of the divide, built with...
The emotional impact of debt
The coronavirus has upped stress levels for people around the world. If it has also caused you debt, it is important to acknowledge the problem...