State doctors mull action at public hospitals
State doctors’ union Pasyki said on Wednesday they are close to taking measures over what they say is failure by the state health services (Okypy)...
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Cyprus to mark international overdose awareness day
Eleftheria Square will be symbolically lit in purple on Tuesday evening to honour International Overdose Awareness Day, to pay tribute to those who lost their...
More than 600 online requests for doctor appointments arranged online
A total of 620 requests for appointments with 700 doctors were arranged online by the end of July, according to the State Health Services Organisation...
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...
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...
