#health

Citizens should be involved in the protection of the environment The right to a healthy environment is a fundamental human right that has not yet been enshrined in international conventions ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari instructed the national health insurance organisation (HIO) on Saturday to present her with a study on the basic national health scheme (Gesy) services to be offered ...

Covid-19 and flu jabs will be administered simultaneously from October 2 across existing vaccination centres, the health ministry announced on Friday. It said those who wish to proceed with just the ...

State hospital workers are set to go on strike in October after unions and the state health services organisation (Okypy) failed to reach an agreement regarding collective labour and pay ...

Afternoon outpatient clinics operated by the state health services (Okypy) will have their working hours and days extended, according to health minister Popi Kanari. Kanari said these working hour extensions ...

A draft bill has been presented on Monday allowing for the ‘right to be forgotten’ to be applied to cancer survivors, who are attempting to make new insurance agreements. The ...

Despite being provided with a free cervical cancer screening, better known as a Pap test, once every two years under the national health scheme, Gesy, only 37.13 per cent of eligible ...

The government is evaluating a proposal to bring the process of sending patients abroad for treatment under the umbrella of Gesy. According to health ministry spokesman Dimitris Constantinou, the details ...

A total of 246 people visited Nicosia’s accident and emergency department in the space of just 24 hours on August 13, a sharp increase on usual figures, it emerged on Thursday. According ...

Finance minister has described Gesy as a ‘black hole’ of funds. He’s right By Brian Lait Gesy, the long awaited and much discussed Cyprus health scheme officially kicked off ...

The WHO warning on the popular sweetener has released a media storm The World Health Organisation’s catergorising of aspartame as a “possible carcinogen” has caused a storm of media ...

An experimental Alzheimer’s disease drug developed by Acumen Pharmaceuticals ABOS.O targeting a novel form of the toxic protein beta amyloid in the brain passed an early safety test ...

Every year 42 new cases of cancer in children are recorded in Cyprus, a stable but worrying trend, although survival rates remained very high, a paediatrician and oncologist said on Tuesday. ...

Opening hours for outpatient services on weekends and holidays are being simplified, HIO director Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Thursday. The change, which takes effect immediately, came about due to apparent ...

With a generous state subsidy ‘a lot more women than we realise choose to freeze their eggs’ Cypriot women are increasingly “shutting their ears to outdated ideas” and moving to ...

Exceptionally high dust levels should be taken more seriously with public warnings and prohibition of outdoor public events, pulmonologist Haris Armeftis stated on Tuesday. Speaking in the wake of the ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari expressed Cyprus’ readiness to collaborate with the World Health Organisation (WHO) partners in safeguarding health and prosperity of citizens on a global level. Speaking during the ...

Private nurses reiterated sector’s demands, including salary increases, as state health services organisation (Okypy) honoured nurses on the occasion of the International Nurses’ Day on Friday. The International Nurses’ ...

The health ministry is tightening up controls on prescribing antibiotics through the health system Gesy, it said on Tuesday. According to data from the European Centre for Disease Control and ...

Police and inspectors from the health ministry raided two stores in Latsia and Nicosia central, they said were selling controlled substances for which they did not have a licence. According ...

People aged over 65 who live in cities tend to feel they have better health than their age group as a whole, with the share for Cyprus being a little lower ...

Cancer vaccines will be made available in Cyprus as soon as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approves them, director of pharmaceutical services Elena Panayiotopoulou said on Friday. “It is only ...

Another 1,242 new Covid-19 infections and one death were traced in the last week, the health ministry said on Friday. The death concerned a 95-year-old woman who died on April 4, which ...

The 14-year-old receiving treatment at Athalassa psychiatric hospital will be transferred to the Makarios hospital on Wednesday, Okypy announced after intense criticism. Earlier in the day, the Pasydy union described ...